duenna
pronunciation
How to pronounce duenna in British English:
UK [dju:'enə]
How to pronounce duenna in American English:
US [du'enə]
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- Noun:
- a woman chaperon
Word Origin
- duenna
- duenna: see dame
- duenna (n.)
- 1660s, "chief lady in waiting upon the queen of Spain," also "an elderly woman in charge of girls from a Spanish family," from Spanish dueña "married lady, mistress" (fem. of dueño "master"), from Latin domina (see dame). Sense extended in English to "any elderly woman chaperon of a younger woman" (1708).