Definitions for chaperons

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chaperons chap·er·on

Spelling: [shap-uh-rohn]

IPA: /ˈʃæp əˌroʊn/

Chaperons is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 853 anagrams from letters in chaperons (acehnoprs).

Definitions for chaperons

noun

1. a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
2. any adult present in order to maintain order or propriety at an activity of young people, as at a school dance.
3. a round headdress of stuffed cloth with wide cloth streamers that fall from the crown or are draped around it, worn in the 15th century.

verb (used with object)

1. to attend or accompany as chaperon.

verb (used without object)

1. to act as chaperon.

Origin of chaperons

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French, Middle French: hood, cowl, equivalent to chape cape¹ + -eron noun suffix; figurative sense French (18th century)

Examples for chaperons

Moya's chaperon, facing the inevitable, capitulated as graceful as she could.

Mrs. Medford was a relative of Inza's who often accompanied her as companion and chaperon.

“I could arrange a little dinner and ask some one to chaperon,” he suggested.

Some old tabby of a chaperon saw me there and came and told my grandmother.

You can take my place as Bettina's chaperon, and Delia will take care of the house.

Of course, Miss Gale, Inza's aunt, would go along as chaperon.

A "chaperon" did duty at the Astor when Juno was in the city, which was not often.

It's quite fairly respectable to dine without a chaperon—since the war.

Besides, there was something of the chaperon about that collar.

To her the thought of his engagement was as good or as bad as a chaperon.