Drac‧u‧la /ˈdrækjələ, ˈdrækjʊlə/
a frightening character originally from the book Dracula by Bram Stoker, who has appeared in many horror films. Count Dracula is a vampire (=a creature who drinks people’s blood in order to stay alive) and lives in a castle in Transylvania. He wears a long black cape (=a type of coat that hangs loosely from your shoulders) and has two long sharp teeth which he uses to bite people’s necks so that he can drink their blood.

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