duennas 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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