Brewer's: Laertes

(3 syl.). Son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia. He kills Hamlet with a poisoned rapier, and dies himself from a wound by the same foil. (Shakespeare: Hamlet.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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