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

Still the reader finds Melville awkward and even embarrassed in the presence of poetry, as if poetry were attended by a duenna and not a muse.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Then a duenna said, severely, "Mesdames!" and they were all abashed at once as though a modesty string had been pulled.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles