retinue
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”). Doublet of ritenuto.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛ.tɪ.njuː/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛ.tɪ.n(j)uː/
- IPA(key): (obsolete) /ɹɪˈtɪnjuː/
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Noun
[edit]retinue (plural retinues)
- (collective) A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
- 1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “Spring in Town”, in Fifty-one Tales, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, →OCLC:
- And not any longer as a king did Winter appear in those streets, as when the city was decked with gleaming white to greet him as a conqueror and he rode in with his glittering icicles and haughty retinue of prancing winds, but he sat there with a little wind at the corner of the street like some old blind beggar with his hungry dog.
- 2012 July 12, Sam Adams, “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, in AV Club:
- Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
- 2026 October 17, Catherine Shoard, “The Digger disaster: what an epic movie flop means for Tom Cruise and Hollywood”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Given the occasion, the band were not overdressed. Joining William (velvet tux) and Kate (chiffon gown, Princess Diana’s earrings) to introduce the film was cinema’s longest-reigning monarch, Tom Cruise (Armani), along with a retinue including director Alejandro González Iñárritu and co-stars Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Jesse Plemons and Michael Stuhlbarg.
- A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
- 1992, J. A. V. Haney and Eric Dahl, “On Igor’s Campaign” (translation of Слово о плъку Игоревѣ):
- Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors / darkened from it by a shadow. / And Igor said to his retinue: / “Brothers and companions! It is better to be slain than taken captive. / Mount, brothers, your swift horses that we may glimpse the Blue Don.”
- 1992, J. A. V. Haney and Eric Dahl, “On Igor’s Campaign” (translation of Слово о плъку Игоревѣ):
- (obsolete) A service relationship.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]group of servants
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comitatus — see also entourage
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service relationship
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See also
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]retinue
- alternative form of retenue
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