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: --
You are allowed to hunt without passing a hunting exam if you are chaperoned by someone that has passed the exam.
By 1931 she kept herself securely chaperoned to guard against such allegations.
Younger fiances will be chaperoned, usually by a female friend, brother or sister while in the company of their future husband.
He was chaperoned by an older student, who was thought to be his bodyguard.
Brought before the magistrate who had chaperoned his wife, he was again sentenced to transportation.
The couple was chaperoned on the date by two of the person's ex-partners.
Adolescent females by custom are closely chaperoned and stay near to home.
Physical contact between young men and women before marriage is not tolerated, and courting between couples is chaperoned.
