duenna in English
noun
1
an older woman acting as a governess and companion in charge of girls, especially in a Spanish family; a chaperone.
She brought an entourage of some sixty people, from her aristocratic duenna , Dona Elvira, to her bishops and chaplains, her ladies, her pages, her fool, her butler and her cooks.
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1. The best known descendent of Ovid's Dipsas is La Vielle ("the Duenna"), the old Bawd in The Romance of the Rose (not in the part translated into Middle English; see the notes to the Wife of Bath's Prologue in The Riverside Chaucer for details of "borrowings")