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In some senses, retinue is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
leading
VERB + RETINUE
hired
RETINUE + NOUN
king, lawyers, suckers
PREP.
among, in, up
ADV.
such
noun
A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
the queen’s retinues
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.
A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
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.”
A service relationship.
the queen’s retinues
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In some senses, retinue is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.