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
At least once, however, the duenna grew forgetful, and Melville briefly became a poet.
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
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
The duenna would not have her mistress disturbed.
From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright
