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Duenna
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1. duenna
a woman chaperon
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Duenna
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(in Spain and Portugal, etc) an elderly woman retained by a family to act as governess and chaperon to young girls
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Duenna
see synonyms of duenna noun
1.
an elderly woman who has charge of the girls and young unmarried women of a Spanish or Portuguese family
2.
a chaperon or governess
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.