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

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

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

A stout, elderly lady in a black dress, who was apparently the girl's duenna, sat farther back in the shadow.

From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold