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

Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In the time of the republics, the conventual seclusion of girls and the duenna system were not yet customary.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm