Donna - What does it mean?
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A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.
* 1837 , Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences (page 65)
* 2005 , Burton D. Fisher, Mozart's Don Giovanni , page 22
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English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
- 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.
