duenna

The result is hypnotic rather than instructive and, like TV cookery programmes, it's a cinematic experience resembling lap dancing overseen by a duenna.

Almost all the pretty and young women were accompanied by an ostensible duenna, and the methods of eluding their vigilance in communication were various.

Two old duennas, of particularly vinegar aspect, advanced upon the girl, who for a moment clung to my friend's arm.

They thought so ill of her, she had so misbehaved herself, that a duenna was not enough; a clergyman must be sent to lecture her.

They were passing a few days in a scene of deep seclusion, there uncared for by tutor or duenna, and with no bar of routine to check the pranks of their gay, childish fancies.