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
Serving Royalty In Geneva And Paris Boutiques Serving captains of industry, discerning collectors as well as members of European royal families and their retinues, Golay Fils & Stahl received a warrant as the official jeweler to the royal family of Romania at the turn of the 20th century.
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Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Jesse Jackson swept in with his retinue of bodyguards and embraced Dinkins, Lynch, and Harlem representative Charlie Rangel in a group hug, as the furniture inside the suite was hastily rearranged to make room for the TV cameras and spotlights.
—Jonathan Mahler, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025
Carter and his retinue surveyed the husks of vacant tenements and eight-foot heaps of bulldozed bricks.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Planetary scientists studying our own solar system haven’t fared much better because more than four and a half billion years lie between them and the birth of our own star and its retinue of worlds.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 15 July 2025
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entourage
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Still deeply scarred by his ex-lover’s death, Pine surprisingly encounters his nemesis in person when Roper and his late-arriving entourage check into the hotel.—
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Usually, the hours after a fight were a time for work — with media duties and drug testing often keeping Joshua and his entourage at the venue until 3am — but this time was different.—
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“Retinue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retinue. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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