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retinue

[ret′'n o̵̅o̅′, -yo̵̅o̅′]

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noun

The definition of a retinue is a group made up of followers and people who work for a famous person.
An example of a retinue is most of the followers of a specific guru attending a retreat.

retinue

noun

a body of assistants, followers, or servants attending a person of rank or importance; train of attendants or retainers

Origin of retinue

Middle English retenue ; from Old French feminine of retenu, past participle of retenir: see retain

retinue

noun

The retainers or attendants accompanying a high-ranking person.

Origin of retinue

Middle English retenue, from Old French, from feminine past participle of retenir, to retain; see retain.

retinue

Noun

(plural retinues)

A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.
the queen’s retinues

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From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”)

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To overcome her resistance nearly the whole of her Portuguese retinue was dismissed.
On the 1st of October he set forth for France with a magnificent retinue as papal legate to Louis XII., to bring him the pope's bull annulling his marriage with Jeanne of France (Louis wished to marry Anne of Brittany).
2), Alpheus, a mighty hunter, was enamoured of Arethusa, one of the retinue of Artemis; Arethusa fled to Ortygia, where she was changed into a spring; Alpheus, in the form of a river, made his way beneath the sea, and united his waters with those of the spring.
Like the tsar, he had the official title of " Great Lord " (veliki gosudar), and he had his palace, his court-dignitaries, his retinue, his boyars and his officials all organized on the model of those of the sovereign.
Their object may be (a) to provide a guide to the other world; (b) to provide the dead with servants or a retinue suitable to his rank; (c) to send messengers to keep the dead informed of the things of this world; (d) to strengthen the dead by the blood or life of a living being, in the same way that food is offered to them or blood rituals enjoined on mourners.

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