[
UK
/ʃˈæpəɹˌəʊn/
]
NOUN
- one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people
VERB
- accompany as a chaperone
How To Use chaperon In A Sentence
- We should therefore not be surprised that the twenties were an enthusiastic display of unchaperoned dating, provocative dress, and exhibitionist behavior.
- Single leaf from a Missal, in Latin Germany, Hamburg, shortly before 1381 Illuminated by Meister Bertram von Minden The young people hawking are fashionably dressed: the youth wears a red pourpoint with a dagged hem, a particularly tight chaperon, narrow belt, and open shoes. Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands
- If you have a customs inspector, make sure that person is accompanied by a chaperon while they are aboard.
- Here, we observe that the difference is caused by reversible multimolecular association while folding in solution, an avenue of kinetic partitioning that slows the overall rate of renaturation relative to the chaperonin chamber, where such associations cannot occur. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
- You're second impression most likely be, vodka and coffee don't play so nice when they're on an unchaperoned date.
- There had been a time, he knew, when two unmarried persons of the opposite sex, walking hand in hand without chaperonage, might have beento say the leastfrowned upon. The Messenger
- The jury heard that when Vinall practised at Glebe House, Headingley, in the early 1990s no chaperones were provided for his patients.
- As I tried to justify the unjustifiable I told myself that since I had Martin for a chaperon nothing could possibly go wrong. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- The lack of the other cellular components present in these systems is not always a boon, however; sometimes proteins made using the PURE system don't fold properly, and additional proteins called chaperones need to be added to fix this problem. Ars Technica
- He had made the contacts and come across venues and ideas while working as a chaperone and knew what he wanted to offer clients. Times, Sunday Times