duenna

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Georgian discipline . . . a sketch of Sheridan’s duenna, or chaperone The early life of 18th-century playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan sounds like the stuff of .

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2010

The show had all the virtues of the duenna -care, good taste, restraint and fondness for her charges -but also the one vice: it was often pretty dull.

From Time Magazine Archive

At least once, however, the duenna grew forgetful, and Melville briefly became a poet.

From Time Magazine Archive

His teen-age escapades became staples of the gossip columns, and the studio hired a male duenna to keep him in line.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his perplexity he resolved to enlist the good graces of her duenna, who undertook to plead his cause with her young mistress.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis