"I've heard of Spanish Duennas," I went on, "but I never knew you could go out into the market place and hire one at so much an hour."
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
Propriety, mutual respect, and American chivalry have done for women what all the surveillance of Spanish Duennas and of French etiquette has done for the young girl of Europe.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
It was inevitable, therefore, that for the moment he should contrast, and not wholly to her advantage, the Girl's unconventionality with the enforced reserve of the dulcineas who, custom decrees, may not be courted save in the presence of Duennas.
"The Girl of the Golden West"
David Belasco