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
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 couple eluded their Soviet duenna, fleeing by taxi across the Swedish border, and sought refuge at the American embassy in Stockholm.
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
Instantly he hid himself behind a thick-leaved hedge, that the rigorous duenna might not see him.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
