duenna
英[du?'en?]
英文詞源
- 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 due?a "married lady, mistress" (fem. of due?o "master"), from Latin domina (see dame). Sense extended in English to "any elderly woman chaperon of a younger woman" (1708).
