解释
- n. 少女的保姆
※ 提供单词"duenna"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
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 dueña "married lady, mistress" (fem. of dueño "master"), from Latin domina (see dame). Sense extended in English to "any elderly woman chaperon of a younger woman" (1708).