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plural donnas
A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy. quotations examples
What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones […]
1837, Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences, page 65
In Don Giovanni's three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna Anna, the sentimental and spurned Donna Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.
2005, Burton D. Fisher, Mozart's Don Giovanni, page 22