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href="/word/chaperon#etymonline_v_8428" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of chaperon " class="crossreference notranslate">chaperon</a> (n.)). Past-participle adjective <span class="foreign notranslate">caparisoned</span> is attested from c. 1600, from a verb <span class="foreign notranslate">caparison</span> (1590s), from French <span class="foreign notranslate">caparaçonner</span>, from <span class="foreign notranslate">caparaçon</span>.</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:1570s">1570s</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to caparison">Entries linking to <i>caparison</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of chaperon" href="/word/chaperon#etymonline_v_8428">chaperon<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>"woman accompanying and guiding a younger, unmarried lady in public," 1720, from French <span class="foreign notranslate">chaperon</span> "protector," especially "female companion to a young woman," earlier "head covering, hood" (c. 1400), from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">chaperon</span> "hood, cowl" (12c.), diminutive of <span class="foreign notranslate">chape</span> "cape" (see <a href="/word/cap#etymonline_v_694" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of cap " class="crossreference notranslate">cap</a> (n.)). "... English writers often erroneously spell it <span class="foreign notranslate">chaperone</span>, app. under the supposition that it requires a fem. termination" [OED]. The notion is of "covering" the socially vulnerable one. The word had been used in Middle English in the literal sense "hooded cloak."</p> <blockquote class="poetry"> "May I ask what is a chaperon?" </blockquote> <blockquote class="poetry"> "A married lady; without whom no unmarried one can be seen in public. If the damsel be five and forty, she cannot appear without the matron; and if the matron be fifteen, it will do." </blockquote> <blockquote class="poetry"> [Catharine Hutton, "The Welsh Mountaineer," London, 1817] </blockquote></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of caparison">Trends of <i>caparison</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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