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

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

For 26 years on radio and TV, the Bell Telephone Hour played duenna to the world's best music and most of its best contemporary performers, from Pons and Pinza to Toscanini and Tebaldi.

From Time Magazine Archive

The duenna of the Lost Generation, according to Miss Porter, was a stupid, vulgar self-promoter.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his perplexity he resolved to enlist the good graces of her duenna, who undertook to plead his cause with her young mistress.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis