Since that time, his performances, of the Duenna, and the School for Scandal, have been distinguished with the public favour beyond any dramatical productions in the language.

[Sp.], game keeper. escort, bodyguard. protector, governor, duenna [Sp.]; guardian; governess &c (teacher) 540; nurse, nanny, babysitter, catsitter, dogsitter, bonne [Fr.], ayah^. 754.

dueña, f., duenna, mistress, lady in waiting.

Berillia, who has been rusticated to a village near by in consequence of her amour, encounters her unfortunate friend by chance and runs away from her duenna to join her.

If society could see you here, it would not find it necessary to invent a duenna to chaperon you.

You would have found your mythical duenna a nuisance in real life.

They play duenna to the universe, and are perpetually on the qui vive, lest it escape, despite their care, into improprieties.

DUENNA (The), a comic opera by R. B. Sheridan (1773).

He saw a negress, a Sudanese duenna, crouching in a corner and staring at him with white eyes.

Precisely that; like a sharp-eyed duenna to his own heart.

In 1775 his comedy, The Rivals, was produced at Covent Garden Theatre; his farce, St. Patrick's Day, or the Scheming Lieutenant, and his comic opera, The Duenna, were staged in the same year.

"He was always screaming at his duenna, one child that I recollect," he smiled.

Joanna, with her neat black dress and smooth hair, was certainly fitted in appearance for the duties of duenna, and Sally had felt no hesitation whatever in requiring her to assume that rôle.

[10] The following passage occurs in one of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays: "Is the great couch up, the Duke of Medina sent?" to which the duenna replies, "'Tis up and ready;" and then Marguerite asks, "And day beds in all chambers?" receiving in answer, "In all, lady.

Other meetings followedsecret rendezvous arranged by the duenna herself in return for liberal bribesto keep which Bianca would steal out of her father's palace at dead of night, leaving the door open behind her to ensure safe return before dawn.

My mother was most vigilant in her rôle of duenna, and from the time I first went on the stage until I was a grown woman I can never remember going home unaccompanied by either her or my father.

And, when we come to SHERIDAN's time, how about The Duenna, and The Trip to Scarborough, which was supposed to be an improvement on the original?

No one can answerand no clue is given by her companion, for the elderly dame by whom she is attended, and who resembles a duenna, is likewise unknown to all.

Miss Dunreddin was already off on her pleasuring, he took the gray little governess for duenna, and a blither three never sat out a tragedy, or laughed over wine and oysters in the midst of a garden with its flowers and fountains afterwards.

"My only trouble with regard to pressing my court is the fact that my lovely Leah is never allowed outside her father's house, save in his company or that of his sisteran old maid of dour mien and sour disposition, who acts the part of a duenna with dog-like tenacity.

"You, M.erRatichon," he said curtly at last, "will have to take the duenna off my hands.

My newly found friend was pleased to admit that my personality and appearance would render my courtship of the elderly duenna a comparatively easy one.

Leah was walking under the trees with her duenna when weM.

Indeed, it struck me during those few minutes that I stood dutifully talking to her duenna that the fair young Jewess cast more than one approving glance in my direction.

While we four were together, either promenading or sitting at open-air cafés in the cool of the evening, the old duenna had eyes and ears only for me, and if my friend Rochez did not get on with his own courtship as fast as he would have wished the fault rested entirely with him.