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Retinue

//ˈɹɛ.tɪ.njuː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.

    "the queen’s retinues"

  2. 2
    the group following and attending to some important person wordnet
  3. 3
    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.”"

  4. 4
    A service relationship. obsolete

Etymology

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

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