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chaperone

[shap-uh-rohn]

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noun, verb (used with object), verb (used without object), chap·er·oned, chap·er·on·ing.

chaperon.

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Scores of parents showed up at the marriage banquet to chaperone their grown children.

Send the student home, even if this means sending a chaperone home with them.

On one occasion, he becomes an unsuspecting chaperone.

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chaperon or chaperone (ˈʃæpəˌrəʊn)

—n
1.	(esp formerly) an older or married woman who accompanies or supervises a young unmarried woman on social occasions
2.	someone who accompanies and supervises a group, esp of young people, usually when in public places

—vb
3.	to act as a chaperon to

[C14: from Old French, from chape hood, protective covering; see cap]

chaperone or chaperone

—n

—vb

[C14: from Old French, from chape hood, protective covering; see cap]

chaperonage or chaperone

—n

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"In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?"

-Ruth Benedict

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