duenna
Example Sentences
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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
Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a duenna of young lovers, Actress Merle Oberon, 47, has been a smashing success.
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
Almost all the pretty and young women were accompanied by an ostensible duenna, and the methods of eluding their vigilance in communication were various.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
