Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of chaperone
nounchaperoning (countable and uncountable, plural chaperonings)
plural chaperonings
- countableuncountableThe act or process of a person being chaperoned.
In all my shopping chaperonings, I do not remember to have leant against the door-post, or stood with my back to the fire-place, […]
1826, Peter George Patmore, Rejected Articles, page 239
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