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

Still the reader finds Melville awkward and even embarrassed in the presence of poetry, as if poetry were attended by a duenna and not a muse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tatum's duenna, friend and confidante on the set is Diane Lewis, 34, the wife of Hedgemon, a black boxer Ryan O'Neal promoted.

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

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