chaperon

1. A person, especially an older or married woman, who accompanies a young unmarried woman in public.
An older person who attends and supervises a social gathering for young people.
2. A guide or companion whose purpose is to ensure propriety or restrict activity

“to see and feel the rough edges of the society . . . without the filter of official chaperones” (Philip Taubman).

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