Dear 今天的單字是 chaperon

你如果有想要xination來講的單字，可以在推文中提出來唷

會選一個字 來當作隔日的podcast的題目唷



chaperon (=chaperone)

n.(陪伴未婚少女上社交場所的)年長女伴 [a person, usually a married or older
woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or
who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.]

v. 護送 [protect, escort]

延伸閱讀：Four and a half years ago, Vladimir V. Putin came up with an idea
to help re-establish Russia as an important player in the Middle East: The
country would sponsor a peace conference in Moscow, invite all the major
parties in the conflict and chaperone them toward a settlement.

chaperon是從法文來的，chape是cape(披肩; 斗篷)的意思，而後面的-eron是個代表名詞
的字尾。這個字最原始的意思是給老鷹用的似風帽的東西(before 1400)。而後就發展成
protector, protect, escort的意思了，因為戴帽帽有保護的意思在。

字源：1350–1400; ME < AF, MF: hood, cowl, equiv. to chape cape 1 + -eron
n. suffix; figurative sense < F (18th century)


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