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du·en·na    Audio Help   [doo-en-uh, dyoo-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.(in Spain and Portugal) an older woman serving as escort or chaperon of a young lady.
2.a governess.
[Origin: 1660–70; < Sp duenna (now dueña) < L domina, fem. of dominus master]

—Related forms
du·en·na·ship, noun
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duenna 
1668, "chief lady in waiting upon the queen of Spain," also "an elderly woman in charge of girls from a Sp. family," from Sp. dueña "married lady, mistress" (fem. of dueño "master"), from L. domina. Sense extended in Eng. to "any elderly woman chaperon of a younger woman" (1708).

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duenna

noun
a woman chaperon 

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Duenna

Dame\ (d[=a]m), n. [F. dame, LL. domna, fr. L. domina mistress, lady, fem. of dominus master, ruler, lord; akin to domare to tame, subdue. See Tame, and cf. Dam a mother, Dan, Danger, Dungeon, Dominie, Don, n., Duenna.]

1. A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.

Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. --Shak.

2. The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.

In the dame's classes at the village school. --Emerson.

3. A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.

4. A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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