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retinue
/ˈɹɛ.tɪ.n(j)uː/
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What does retinue mean?
noun
- A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
- A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete) A service relationship.
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The other guests were now fast dispersing, with the exception of those immediately attached to Prince John’s faction, and his retinue.
A good rule that, and only relaxed by courtesy in favour of the retinue of visiting royalty from a friendly foreign power.
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The governor and his subordinates and the custom-house retinue in particular, said that the writs were legal, and that they should be enforced.
Every year, moreover, decorum exacts that the firstfruits of war and all criminals should be sent as recruits to swell the king's retinue.
He was dressed in magnificent silks and looked down very haughtily upon the lesser people and the retinue of servants who were gathered about him.