999英语网 单词
duenna的意思
duenna
英 [du'en]
- n. 少女的保姆
英文词源
- duenna
- duenna: see dame
- duenna (n.)
- 1660s, "chief lady in waiting upon the queen of Spain," also "an elderly woman in charge of girls from a Spanish family," from Spanish duea "married lady, mistress" (fem. of dueo "master"), from Latin domina (see dame). Sense extended in English to "any elderly woman chaperon of a younger woman" (1708).