Duchess (disambiguation)
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Duchess is a rank of nobility, the female equivalent of Duke.
Duchess may also refer to:
Books, music and film
- The Duchess (film), a 2008 film
- The Duchess, a book first published in 1998 as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
- Duchess (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), a character in Lewis Carroll's book
- "Duchess" (Genesis song), 1980
- "Duchess" (The Stranglers song), 1979
- "Duchess", a song by Scott Walker from Scott 4
Places
- Duchess, Queensland, a village in the Shire of Cloncurry, Australia
- Duchess, Alberta, a village in Canada
- Duchess Landing, Oklahoma, a settlement in Oklahoma, USA
- Duchess Theatre, London, England
People
- The Duchess, nickname of convicted murderer Juanita Spinelli
- The Duchess, nom de plume of 19th century Irish writer Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
- Norma-Jean Wofford (died 2005), rhythm guitarist with Bo Diddley from 1962 to 1966, nicknamed "Duchess"
- Lashina, a fictional DC Comics character also known as "Duchess"
- Duchess, a character in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, an American animated television series
- "Duchess", the code name for the title character in the American animated television series Archer
- Duchess, a character from the movie The Aristocats
Transport
- HMS Duchess, any of several British ships
- Duchess (sponge hooking boat), a historic sponge-hooking boat in Tarpon Springs, Florida
- Beechcraft Duchess, American monoplane
- Duchess class, a name for the unstreamlined locomotives of the LMS Princess Coronation Class of British railway locomotives
Other uses
- Duchess (restaurant), a restaurant chain in Connecticut, USA
- Duchess (solitaire), a card game for one person
- Duchess lorikeet (Charmosyna margarethae), a species of parrot
- Duchess potatoes or Duchesse potatoes, a way of cooking potatoes
- Duchess Stakes, a Canadian horse race
- Duchess, a brand of packaged sweet baked goods made by Carolina Foods
- Vanity (dressing-table), a type of furniture also called a duchess in Australian English
- The Duchess (horse) (1813–1836), British Thoroughbred racehorse
- "The Duchess", a 1941 custom Cadillac limousine owned by the abdicated king Edward VIII and his consort Wallis Simpson, and later restored by Morgan Murphy (food critic)
See also
- Duke (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Duchess"
- All pages beginning with "The Duchess"
Similar spelling
- Dutchess (disambiguation)
- The Dutchess, the debut studio album by American recording artist Fergie
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