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Even the straightforward parodies of classic Hindi musical numbers, in which love usually dances with the chaperonage of a chorus line, lack the comic spark to send them soaring.

From New York Times • May 10, 2013

My sincere condolences to his parents, whom I never met, but who loved their brilliant, magnificently weird son and made sure he always had chaperonage when he went abroad on his adventures.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2013

For a month Anne and Michael planned to enjoy themselves in Switzerland* under the chaperonage of her mother, Princess Margrethe, and his uncle, Prince Nicholas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the chaperonage of Secretary of War William Howard Taft they, with others, made a junket together to the Orient.

From Time Magazine Archive

She met him at a watering-place, whither she had gone under the chaperonage of a wealthy and compassionate relative.

From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Schubin, Ossip