chaperonage

English

Etymology

From chaperon +‎ -age.

Noun

chaperonage (usually uncountable, plural chaperonages)

1. The state of being a chaperon.
2. The protection offered by a chaperon.

Quotations

• 1863, Caroline Sheridan Norton, Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lost and Saved:

  Sara, the successor to Helen Wollingham in her maternal chaperonage, and infinitely pleasanter to chaperon, since she combined the family beauty with a spirit of gaiety . . .

• 1860 Miriam (Coles) Harris - Rutledge

  I had seen her at dinner more than once, when she had dined with us, and gone to the opera under my aunt's chaperonage.