Definition of "duennas" [duennas]

• Plural form of duenna. (noun)

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• "The girls sat on one side of the hall, chaperoned by their mothers or some old duennas, and the men on the other."
• "“What say you, Catherine,” he said, “if we two, thus strangely turned out of service at the same time, should give our two most venerable duennas the torch to hold, while we walk a merry measure with each other over the floor of this weary world?”"
• "So he summoned an old woman of the duennas of his wives and said to her, Go to the house of"