- a variation of chaperone.
chaperon
Example Sentences
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The three girls aged 13, 10, and 9 arrived early in the morning Thursday, were detained and barred entry into the country along with their cousin chaperon who immigration authorities deemed “inadmissible.”
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2019
Lubin positioned himself as the grownup in the room, the worldly chaperon.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
At the outset, the company plans on offering fully autonomous rides, with a Waymo employee in the car only as a chaperon.
From The Verge ● Aug. 21, 2018
By mid-month, Venus and Mars appear closer by a few degrees in the west-southwestern sky after dusk and may need a cosmic chaperon to keep them apart.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2016
They had said all along that when I was eighteen and going to college, I could go out with boys, and then only in the company of a chaperon.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
