0 past simple and past participle of chaperone
1 (especially in the past) to stay with and take care of a young woman who is not married when she is in public:
Given her tailored costume, her appearance in their midst is not surprising, but in this homosocial world she was usually chaperoned by several attentive men.
The only way that other children could be protected would be for that child to be chaperoned continuously.
When they had gone, others appeared and chaperoned me through deep-breathing exercises, to prevent my getting pneumonia after the anæsthetic.
If there is to be a male midwife, he must be chaperoned.
We shall also be asking health authorities to make provision for male midwives to be chaperoned as necessary.
We need the safeguards and with reputable firms, et cetera, they are there: the children are well chaperoned and the hours are not difficult.
Instead of dating, they practice chaperoned courtship, which encompasses the couple abstaining from any physical contact.
Physical contact between young men and women before marriage is not tolerated, and courting between couples is chaperoned.
