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
Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a duenna of young lovers, Actress Merle Oberon, 47, has been a smashing success.
From Time Magazine Archive
The duenna of the Lost Generation, according to Miss Porter, was a stupid, vulgar self-promoter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rhoda Polly with her Oxford manner of condescending to undergraduates, and Hannah with the Pestalozzi Institute refinements, might speak and look as if they had a duenna hidden in the background, but Liz—never!
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
