- a variation of chaperone.
chaperon
Britishnoun
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(esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
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someone who accompanies and supervises a group, esp of young people, usually when in public places
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of chaperon
C14: from Old French, from chape hood, protective covering; see cap
Example Sentences
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The 1922 edition contained a chapter on “The Chaperon and Other Conventions”; by 1927 it had been retitled “The Vanishing Chaperone and Other New Conventions”; and by 1937, “The Vanished Chaperone and Other Lost Conventions.”
From Time • May 18, 2016
“It’s like ‘Le Petit Chaperon Rouge,’ ” Ayouch observes, referring to the French version of the wolf-eats-grandma fable.
From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2015
In the 17th century Charles Perrault turned an oral folk tale into “Le Petit Chaperon Rouge,” and three centuries later Angela Carter gave the story a wicked, feminist spin.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011
Later, Physicist Georges Chaperon wound resistances into intertwined coils with the same result.
From Time Magazine Archive
But instead, I made myself agreeable to the Chaperon, and saved Tibe on three separate occasions from joining the bright reflections and the water-lilies in the pond.
From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Anderson, Karl
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