Chaperon

['ʃæpərɔn]

(noun.) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people.

Typist: Sam--From WordNet

(n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.

(n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

(n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.

(v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.

Edited by Fergus

n. a kind of hood or cap: one who attends a lady in public places as a protector.—v.t. to attend a lady to public places.—n. Chap′eronage.

Editor: Nettie

I am sure I shall be very happy to chaperon you at any time till I am confined, if Mrs. Dashwood should not like to go into public. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
We'll have Mrs. O'Dowd to chaperon you, he said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Freed from a cold and over-chaperoned respectability they compete with the devil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Lord Kinnaird passed us again, and nodded good-naturedly as he chaperoned some ladies to their carriage. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Mrs. Haggistoun, Colonel Haggistoun's widow, her relative, chaperoned her, and kept her house. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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