Anna Karenina vocabulary

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equerry

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Definition:
1. a royal official in charge of equine matters
2. an attendent in the British royal household
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Levin did not care to eat, and he was not smoking; he did not want to join his own friends, that is Sergey Ivanovitch, Stepan Arkadyevitch, Sviazhsky and the rest, because Vronsky in his equerry's uniform was standing with them in eager conversation.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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He bore a sheaf of stiff paper like a salver and was followed by Rupert and the immaculate Ned Gowan, bringing up the rear like royal equerries.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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'My equerry was to have met me at Charing Cross, but he failed to do so—I cannot imagine why.'

Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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