retinue
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English retenue, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”)
Pronunciation
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Noun
retinue (plural retinues)
- A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.
- the queen’s retinues
- 1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales:
- 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.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
- 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.
- 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.”
- Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors
- 1992, J. A. V. Haney and Eric Dahl, “On Igor’s Campaign” (translation of Слово о плъку Игоревѣ):
- (obsolete) A service relationship.
Translations
group of servants
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comitatus
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service relationship
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Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
retinue
- Alternative form of retenue