Before revision: A chaperone (also spelled chaperon) in its original social usage was a person who for propriety's sake accompanied an unmarried girl in public : usually she was an older married woman, and most commonly the girl's own mother.
After revision: A chaperone (also spelled chaperon) in its original social usage was a person who for propriety's sake accompanied an unmarried girl in public ; usually she was an older married woman, and most commonly the girl's own mother.