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duenna

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6 lettersPronunciation /duˈɛ.nə/Part of speech nounSorted adennuStarts with DEnds with A0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a woman chaperon

Word origin

From Old Spanish duenna or dueña, from Vulgar Latin donna, from Latin domina (“Lady”). Doublet of dame.

Used in a sentence

  • Then he placed her in a house and shut her up in a chamber, appointing ten old women as duennas to guard her, and forbade her to go forth to the Seven Palaces.
  • I dared not do anything to spoil the image of me she had set up to adore. I had toadied to her when she was the awesome duenna of my darling, and a groveling something still persisted in my attitude toward her.

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