A devoted lover; a lady’s man; from Romeo in Shakespeare’s tragedy. (See Romeo and Juliet.)
“James in an evil hour went forth to woo
Young Juliet Hart, and was her Romeo.”
Crabbe: Borough.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.