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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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She felt that she had been rather remiss in her duties as duenna, and was angry with herself.
She kept me in sight like a duenna, and strangely ill-treated me.
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.
The result is hypnotic rather than instructive and, like TV cookery programmes, it's a cinematic experience resembling lap dancing overseen by a duenna.
Then the duenna resumed, and now came the worst of her story.

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