as in entourage
a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person
a campaign bus carrying the candidate, her retinue, and a gaggle of reporters and bloggers
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Recent Examples of retinue
For instance, Prince Charles (Emmy nominee Dominic West) seeks his family’s approval of his fiancée, Camilla Parker Bowles (Olivia Williams), even as his retinue encourages him to publicly tarnish his ex-wife, Diana.
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Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
Entitled male predators, protection by a retinue of enablers, and silencing by payoff or litigation are still foundational to our national power structure.
—Nina Burleigh, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
In a succession of breathtaking sequences, Mariko weaponizes those clashing codes of honor to undermine Ishido’s position, first sacrificing her retinue and fruitlessly trying to fight off the castle guards in order to draw out evidence of everyone’s captivity.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Standing stoutly on a granite rock just off Wilshire Boulevard in MacArthur Park, Harrison Gray Otis has lost his retinue.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
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Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
Entitled male predators, protection by a retinue of enablers, and silencing by payoff or litigation are still foundational to our national power structure.
—Nina Burleigh, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
In a succession of breathtaking sequences, Mariko weaponizes those clashing codes of honor to undermine Ishido’s position, first sacrificing her retinue and fruitlessly trying to fight off the castle guards in order to draw out evidence of everyone’s captivity.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
Standing stoutly on a granite rock just off Wilshire Boulevard in MacArthur Park, Harrison Gray Otis has lost his retinue.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
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“Retinue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retinue. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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