LekhoriLekhoriA group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
The soldier who was pulling at the other end was clumsily unhorsed, and I myself was all but thrown by the unexpected jerk. This ludicrous incident at first provoked mirth among my escort, a mirth which their superstitious minds immediately turned into an ill omen.
An accompanying person in such a group.
The waves being so high when we and the escorts, which stayed about one quarter mile to each side and ahead of us, were in a trough at the same time and we were unable to see one another.
A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
He reported that the police escorted the children five or six blocks beyond Natural Bridge Avenue and at that point stopped the white children who were following and shooed them back to the park.
Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta.
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To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
At this point, the Tenant became extremely angry.... the Tenant started yelling even louder and charged at me. The Tenant was restrained by the security guard and escorted out of the hearing room. The Tenant was ultimately escorted out of the Board’s office because he continued his yelling and aggressive behaviour in the hallway and at the customer service desk.
To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.