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
As a duenna of young lovers, Actress Merle Oberon, 47, has been a smashing success.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The show had all the virtues of the duenna -care, good taste, restraint and fondness for her charges -but also the one vice: it was often pretty dull.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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