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

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

A shy woman, virtuous and retiring, caring only for her % children, but determined to fulfil her role as duenna, as figurehead, as matriarch.

From Time Magazine Archive

For 26 years on radio and TV, the Bell Telephone Hour played duenna to the world's best music and most of its best contemporary performers, from Pons and Pinza to Toscanini and Tebaldi.

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