Etymology

chaperon

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Today it means: An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior. Full definition →

French chaperon ← Old French chape
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromchape
  2. French · derived fromchaperon“hood”
  3. English todaychaperon

From French chaperon (“hood”), from Middle French, "head covering", from Old French chape.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchchape all →

chape

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.