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
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
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
They thought so ill of her, she had so misbehaved herself, that a duenna was not enough; a clergyman must be sent to lecture her.
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
