It begins with a Yale-Harvard boat race at New London, but soon Jean and her room-mate sail for Great Britain under the chaperonage of Miss Hooper, a favorite member of the faculty at Ashton College.
Of course it's no good trying the old kind of thing--strict chaperonage and that sort of business," he said at last.
Well, my view is that for the babes, as you call them, chaperonage is certainly reviving.
Elizabeth, deprived of the chaperonage of her cap and apron, and left stranded upon the threshold, has no resource but to cross the floor as steadily as a most trembling pair of legs will let her.
She knew that chaperonagewas required on such occasions.
In a land where the customs of chaperonage are exceeding strict, and no young woman is supposed to be left alone with any young man for the briefest moment, it is easy to see why the band nights in the plaza are popular.
Strictest chaperonage is maintained over young women, no girl being permitted for a moment to be alone with a young man, a system that would make slow headway in North America.
There is another much more significant form of chaperonage in English business circles, of which it is difficult to speak without provoking hostility.
At theatres and evening concertschaperonage is distinctly required; but at morning concerts and matinees, companionship rather than chaperonage is needed.
Dances are also given to which it is understood chaperons are not invited, the hostess again acting in that capacity, but at large balls and dances chaperonage is considered indispensable for young ladies.
She did not live with me--of course, chaperonage does not imply residence, you understand that.
I need not say that she is a lady, but her circumstances will probably necessitate her asking you rather more than the usual rate for board and lodging, in compensation for her chaperonage and companionship.
The need for chaperonage was over, and it was abundantly evident that Pixie was in no need of consolation.
His mother's friends would not have understood his personalchaperonage of the shabby little girl at his elbow.
To our emancipated way of thinking there was something curiously mediaeval in the careful chaperonage to which the lovely and graceful Majorcan girls were subjected.
Sometimes a mother in sober garments or a smiling father in a wide hat marched past in proud chaperonage of a diffident young daughter rigged out in all the family jewellery.
Everything depends upon the girl, and the spirit of the chaperonage she receives.
For this reason the system of chaperonage of the small communities of rural America has not been as elaborate or as strictly adhered to as that of the cities.
It appeared that he was come to spend the Sunday at Avonmouth, and Grace tried to extract the comfort for her mother that two gentlemen were better than one, and Fanny need not be on their minds for chaperonage for that day.
Many of the most flagrant violations of propriety, in what is called the fashionable set, have arisen from this choice of young chaperons, which is a mere begging of the question, and no chaperonage at all.
There is something in her wise remarks; and with the carelessness of chaperonage in cities which are now largely populated by irresponsible foreigners the dangers increase.
This business of chaperonage is a point which demands attention on the part of careless American mothers.
But in Europe, where the custom ofchaperonage is so universal, she must be more circumspect.
Very likely she found her mother there when she came with you, unmindful, the one and the other, that there was such a thing as chaperonage in a more fastidious or censorious world.
There must have been some means of joining them, but it is now gone from me, and I know only that they were given under the fully sufficing chaperonage of a sole matron.
The ideal condition of Americanized chaperonage is far from being realized in the great mass of American society.
This absolute condition of chaperonage exists during the novitiate of the young society woman.
Like the latter, she needs on social occasions the watchful chaperonage that should be given to all young girls in these conditions.
A year before she would have dashed off with me quite unscrupulously to talk alone, carried me off to her room for an hour with a minute of chaperonage to satisfy the rules.
It had not, and she had gone to what the Forsyths called their old ancestral five-dollar room, where that New York family continued to project a sort of wireless chaperonage over her.
She was not so strict in regard to chaperonage and all that as the New York finishing schools; she had no need to be.
The excessivechaperonage which is customary in Europe does not belong to the United States.
When Gilda met him on the staircase, her old influence returned, and under the chaperonage of the landlord, Mr Twisegood, they started the interview.
Beginning with the saloon dance hall, unquestionably the most brutally evil type, and ending with the dancing academy, where some pretense of chaperonage is made, the dance hall is a vicious institution.
The dance hall, with its curse of drink, its lack of chaperonage and of reasonable discipline, helps this along its downward course.
It had ended in her going away weeping to pack up her boxes; for Lady Caroline literally refused to condone the injury done to Margaret by any carelessness of chaperonage on Miss Stone's part.
Lady Caroline was not present; her neuralgia was troublesome, and she had every confidence in Alicia's chaperonage and Margaret's discretion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chaperonage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
