Look up duchess in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Duchess is a rank of nobility, the female equivalent of Duke.

Duchess may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Places

• Duchess, Queensland, a township in Cloncurry, Australia
• Duchess, Alberta, a village in Canada
• Duchess Landing, Oklahoma, a US settlement
• Duchess Theatre, London, England

People

• The Duchess, nickname of convicted murderer Juanita Spinelli
• Norma-Jean Wofford (c. 1942–2005), nicknamed "The Duchess", rhythm guitarist with Bo Diddley
• The Duchess,Valentine The Third of 22nd century Canadian Descendent Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Transport

• Duchess (sponge hooking boat), a historic boat in Tarpon Springs, Florida
• Beechcraft Duchess, an American monoplane
• Duchess class, a name for unstreamlined LMS Coronation Class British railway locomotives

Other uses

• HMS Duchess, any of several British ships
• Duchess (restaurant), a restaurant chain in Connecticut, USA
• Duchess (solitaire), a card game
• Duchess lorikeet (Charmosyna margarethae), a species of parrot
• Duchess potatoes, a cuisine item
• The Duchess Stakes, a Canadian horse race
• The Duchess (horse) (1813–1836), British Thoroughbred racehorse
• Duchess, a brand of packaged sweet baked goods made by Carolina Foods
• Duchess, Australian English term for a dressing table
• "The Duchess", a limousine once owned by abdicated UK king Edward VIII and later restored by Morgan Murphy
• Duchesses (women's cricket), a women's cricket team from South Africa
• Duchess (chess variant), a 2-6 players chess variants.

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Duchess
• All pages with titles beginning with The Duchess
• Dutchess (disambiguation)