Crossword-Solution: DUENNA 6 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Duenna n. The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain.
Duenna n. An elderly lady holding a station between a governess and
companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a
Spanish or a Portuguese family.
Duenna n. Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a
governess.

We have 32 clues for the answer “DUENNA”

Clue Answers
Chaperon in C diz 1 answer
governess Spanish words 1 answer
Watchful lady. 1 answer
Spanish words governess 1 answer
Spanish social monitor 1 answer
Spanish escort 1 answer
Spanish chaperon 1 answer
Señorita's chaperon 1 answer
Senorita's mentor. 1 answer
Senorita's constant companion. 1 answer
Role of Donna Rodriguez in "Don Quixote." 1 answer
Prokofiev opera, with "The" 1 answer
Office of Dame Ortiz: Gil Blas. 1 answer
Mexican minder 1 answer
Female chaperone 1 answer
Escort for a señorita 1 answer
1983 Hambletonian winner 1 answer
Spanish words chaperon 2 answers
SPANISH governess 2 answers
SPANISH companion 2 answers
SPANISH chaperone 2 answers
Granada governess 2 answers
chaperon 8 answers
GOVERNESS 10 answers
A WOMAN CHAPERON 10 answers
chaperon Spanish words 11 answers
Chaperone 13 answers
Accompanist 31 answers
Companion 48 answers
LADY ___ 58 answers
Accompaniment 60 answers
Nursemaid 64 answers
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Sentences with DUENNA (5)

She lived alone, or with no other duenna than a bushy-browed old serving-woman, though indeed she had a friendly neighbor in the person of a certain Madame Grandoni, who in various social emergencies lent her a protecting wing, and had come with her to Rowland’s dinner.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Often Jack was with us; more often we were quite alone.” “Holy Virgin! Who ever heard tell of such good fortune? Consuelo Ladrello had never been an hour alone with Don Domingo before they were married.” “A good girl does not need a duenna to watch her; that is what I think.
Remember the Alamo Amelia E. Barr 2008
His job ought to be duenna to a Spanish maiden, not assistant to a priest with a leaning toward the flesh.” Now, Father Fitzpatrick talked with a--no, you couldn't call it a brogue.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008
For here were these ladies in the flesh, their great, opaque, almond eyes consuming us with a swift glance, and each walking with a languid grace beside her duenna.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1995
But, as I was saying, Richard, or was about to say, my daughter has been allowed to rust; her aunt was a mere duenna; hence, in parenthesis, Richard, her distrust of me; my nature and that of the duenna are poles asunder—poles! But, now that I am here, now that I have given up the fight, and live henceforth for one only of my works—I have the modesty to say it is my best—my daughter—well, we shall put all that to rights.
Tales and Fantasies Robert Louis Stevenson 2013

Quotes with DUENNA (1)

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.
Robertson Davies
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chicago Tribune, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 18 times in crossword archives (1947–2019).