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chaperone
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman. 2 (context biology English) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Anna Zborowska posed for two nude paintings, presumably painted in her rooms at the Sunny Hotel with Lunia acting as chaperone . ▪ At different times Polanco, Garza, Santana and Marmalejo were assigned to these buses as drivers ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people [syn: chaperon ] v. accompany as a chaperone [syn: chaperon ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chaperone or Chaperon may refer to: Chaperone (social) or chaperon, a person who accompanies or supervises young people on social occasions Chaperone (clinical) , a person who acts as a witness for a patient and a medical practitioner during a medical examination ...
Usage examples of chaperone.
Best we can tell, the original vector technology, as used by Grace, included some other exotic moleculethe French have named it Chaperone, because that is what Benoit Moreau called it.
Reluctantly she permitted Dolley to join with other young people, chaperoned of course, in attending parties, picnics, jaunts into the country.
Botticelli for me and the fattest whore in Florence, with plenty left over for her elephant of a mother to act as chaperone!
So, with Caspar to chaperone them, they had crossed the streets of Haarlem at dusk.
You are not my chaperone and I am not some thirteen-year-old waiting for the chance to sneak off for a roll in the haymow with the boy from two farms over.
Large arrays of cylindrical structures and their chaperoning conduits and connectors were at once majestic yet stylized in design.
And so, for one reason and another, they walked on in silence, chaperoned by the voice of Mrs.
She was forever being chaperoned about by her mother or some other elderly female relative, which was all very well for a new debutante but decidedly slow for a lady of twenty three.
The Dowager Countess was chaperoning her daughter to the ball and was keeping a closer eye on her than she had done at Lady Phillips's.
She will be well enough chaperoned by her rector and his wife until her auntie arrives.
I don't suddenly discover that I have been chaperoning a set of German code-dispatches across the seas.
I would have to do the chaperoning for her, and she did hope that I would not forget what I was sent for, or get talking with somebody, and leave Miss Gage altogether to Kendricks.
And this was very observable in the case of the girls, who were chaperoning their mothers-- shrinking women who seemed a little confused by the bustle, and a little awed by the machinery of the great caravansary.
To send them in one direction and the party chaperoned in another is certainly original.
Cortlandt was chaperoning, who behaved with an elaboration of restraint and propriety that kept Irene in a flutter of uneasiness.