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retinue
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synonyms: courtiers, meinie, cortege ???
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Definition:a group of advisers or assistants accompanying an important person
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His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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A stream of salacious pamphlets portrayed the queen as a woman of insatiable sexual appetites who exhausted her male and female lovers, among them the king's brother, the Comte d'Artois. In drunken orgies she took on her entire retinue of bodyguards.
Thomas J. Craughwell. Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée, p.129 (2012)
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He might have been more accurate to describe the King's retinue as a grasping crowd of greedy Scots
Antonia Fraser. Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, p.xxx (1996)
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Even if I have no proper retinue here, surely that is no reason why I should not hold audience in a proper manner?
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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He saw in the foreground Pilate's irritated face and the serene face of Christ, and in the background the figures of Pilate's retinue and the face of John watching what was happening.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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