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 township 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