duenna
Example Sentences
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At the San Francisco Dream Center, run by two duennas of the movement, Psychologist Gayle Delaney and Psychiatrist Loma Flowers, a private 50-minute session costs $90, and a 90-minute group meeting $35 to $50.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only a generation ago, Spanish girls were not allowed out without duennas; today they roam alone in miniskirts on the street and bikinis on the beach.
From Time Magazine Archive
THE Countess soon arrived, escorted by twelve duennas, who formed a lane through which she passed into the Duke's presence.
From The Story of Don Quixote by Choate, Florence
I might let myself be handled by all the world; but allow duennas to touch me?
From The Story of Don Quixote by Choate, Florence
I've been living here and there and everywhere with the queerest duennas, though they really have been dears; and now and then I have had a good time, though I've had some frightfully dull ones.
From A Master of Deception by Marsh, Richard
