escort
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
escort
▶noun /ˈɛskɔːt/
- 1 a person, vehicle, or group accompanying another to provide protection or as a mark of rank.
- 2 a person who is hired or formally requested to accompany a member of the opposite sex to a social event.
- 3 euphemistic a prostitute.
– origin C16: from Fr. escorte (n.), escorter (v.), from Ital. scorta, fem. past part. of scorgere ‘to conduct, guide’, based on L. ex- ‘out of’ + corrigere (see correct).
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