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Chaperonage   Listen
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Chaperonage  n.  Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.






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"Chaperonage" Quotes from Famous Books



... responsibility. The elder girls were domesticated and acquainted now at Outledge; there were several matronly ladies with whom the whole party was sufficiently associated in daily intercourse for all the air of chaperonage that might be needed; and one assistant pupil, whom, to be sure, the young ladies themselves counted as a most convenient nonentity, ...
— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... murmured, "Miss Terroll," the inflection of surprise remained in his voice. It was well after ten o'clock and in those circles of society where he was received the system of chaperonage was rigid enough to fail of understanding for the women who dared the streets at night unescorted. He knew ladies who went to their several rostrums to sound the clarion of sex equality and who went at night, but they did not go uncavaliered. And under the lights this ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck



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