[f. CHAPERON sb. or v. + -AGE.] The action or practice of chaperoning; the attendance or protection of a chaperon.
1857. Ld. Dufferin, Lett. High Lat., vii. (1867), 85. Sent forward … under the chaperonage of a guide.
1858. Miss Mulock, Th. ab. Wom., 97. To offer her … my chaperonage at the conversazione.
1883. L. Oliphant, Altiora Peto, I. 197. A month of the London season under my chaperonage.
