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

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

The duenna of the Lost Generation, according to Miss Porter, was a stupid, vulgar self-promoter.

From Time Magazine Archive

She looked at Chitta and gave her a quick order that sent the duenna reluctantly ahead of them.

From The Azure Rose A Novel by Kauffman, Reginald Wright