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Definition of Duennas
1. duenna [n] - See also: duenna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duennas
Literary usage of Duennas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Spanish Anthology: A Collection of Lyrics From The Thirteenth Century Down by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1917)
"Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita (Flourished in the first half of the fourteenth
century) DE LAS PROPIEDADES QUE LAS duennas CHICAS HAN Quiero vos abreviar la ..."
2. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"a huge padlock, and put Uie key in his pocket. Leander, being in love with Leonora,
laughed at locksmiths and duennas, and Diego (2 syl. ..."
3. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"From which I gather that, since all duennas are mischief-makers and impertinent,
of whatever kind or quality they may be, what shall those be who are ..."
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