chaperon

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The 1922 edition contained a chapter on “The Chaperon and Other Conventions”; by 1927 it had been retitled “The Vanishing Chaperone and Other New Conventions”; and by 1937, “The Vanished Chaperone and Other Lost Conventions.”

From Time • May 18, 2016

“It’s like ‘Le Petit Chaperon Rouge,’ ” Ayouch observes, referring to the French version of the wolf-eats-grandma fable.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2015

In the 17th century Charles Perrault turned an oral folk tale into “Le Petit Chaperon Rouge,” and three centuries later Angela Carter gave the story a wicked, feminist spin.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011

Later, Physicist Georges Chaperon wound resistances into intertwined coils with the same result.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Nay, Gabrielle," he said—and Michael, with a jealous pang, noted how his voice lingered over her name—"you yourself know well that we are not proper escort for you without another——" "Chaperon?" she asked quickly.

From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred