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

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

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

The couple eluded their Soviet duenna, fleeing by taxi across the Swedish border, and sought refuge at the American embassy in Stockholm.

From Time Magazine Archive

She slept well, and, wakening rather late the next morning, found that Doña Luisa and her duenna had left an hour before.

From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold