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

At least once, however, the duenna grew forgetful, and Melville briefly became a poet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna."

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

They were passing a few days in a scene of deep seclusion, there uncared for by tutor or duenna, and with no bar of routine to check the pranks of their gay, childish fancies.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret