Crossword-Solution: DUENNA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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 |
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| 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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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).