Chaperone
['ʃæpərəʊn] or ['ʃæpəron]
Examples
- And Miss Kate strolled away, adding to herself with a shrug, I didn't come to chaperone a governess, though she is young and pretty. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- 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.
Edited by Dorothy