Crossword clues for chaperonage
chaperonage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chaperonage \Chap"er*on`age\, n. Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being a chaperon 2 The protection offered by a chaperon
Usage examples of "chaperonage".
If she declined to go with me, I told Andromeda next day, she must abide in Seriphos under Dictys's chaperonage until my return: I would not have her travel unescorted.
All the natural laws of the world were held in suspension, here, where an army of invisibles tenderly waited on her, and she would talk with the lion, under the patient chaperonage of the brown-eyed dog, on the nature of the moon and its borrowed light, about the stars and the substances of which they were made, about the variable transformations of the weather.
Like most young people in most royal families in history, Ruth had labored under a degree of chaperonage she'd often found exasperating.