2. Verb. (third-person singular of chaperon) ¹
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Definition of Chaperons
1. chaperon [v] - See also: chaperon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaperons
Literary usage of Chaperons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Twentieth Century American: Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of by Sir Harry Perry Robinson (1908)
"... Standard Oil Company—And Solicitors—Legal chaperons— The Sanctity of Stamped
Paper—Conclusions — American Courts of Justice—Do "Honest" Traders Exist? ..."
2. Everyman's Encyclopædia of Etiquette: What to Write, what to Do, what to by Emily Holt (1920)
"Perhaps this is largely because everybody dances now— chaperons and all—and people
have begun to suspect that the average matron's oversight of her charge ..."
3. Manners & Social Usages by Mary Elizabeth (Wilson) Sherwood (1897)
"chaperons AND THEIR DUTIES. IT is strange that the Americans, so prone to imitate
British customs, have been slow to adopt that law of English society which ..."
4. Social Etiquette of New York by Abby Buchanan Longstreet (1886)
"chaperons AND ESCORTS. IN our republic it is not that the young woman of good
breeding and fair education is made indifferent to appearances, or that she is ..."
5. Manners and Rules of Good Society, Or, Solecisms to be Avoided by Member of the aristocracy (1888)
"... interests and enjoyment of her daughter—a motive-power which is too often
lacking in all other chaperons, saving, perhaps, in the elder married sister, ..."
6. Etiquette for Americans by Woman of fashion (1898)
"If men did not drink, there would be less need of chaperons. Most young men, it
is safe to say, who are admitted into the society of young girls, ..."
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