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What is a duenna?

What is a duenna? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a chaperon of a young lady, usually an older woman.
  2. a governess or nanny.
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But what could evade the lynx-eyed vigilance of the duenna of old?
And turned off for pinching the duenna, or affronting my lady's waiting-woman?
It is to be observed the duenna was of a most obliging disposition.
Is it the fierce and farouche duenna who wanted to annihilate me so when I bade you adieu one night?
Her mother, too, betrayed her, used her as a pawn, a duenna for Sadie and the father.
The result is hypnotic rather than instructive and, like TV cookery programmes, it's a cinematic experience resembling lap dancing overseen by a duenna.

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