retinue

How To Use retinue In A Sentence

• In the eleventh century the Norse kings probably had an immediate retinue of about ninety men, excluding menial servants and hangers on.
• Five acres may be sufficient for the bonus recipient who does not have a house in town or the funds for a retinue of staff. Times, Sunday Times
• The girlish heroine, whose name itself has a poetic touch, came with a retinue of five, her parents, a hair dresser, an ayah and driver.
• Land was held in customary tenure, the largest holdings by 250 daimyos (feudal lords), each with his retinue of dependent samurai.
• THE letter which the Reverend Mr. Marsham had received, contained a few lines informing him the Right Honorable incumbent was coming to pass six weeks at his living; and as his retinue, composing his family and tonish friends, were weary of the watering-place they had just been honouring with their company, were to come with him, he had favored his curate with the commission of ordering the house-keeper at the spacious parsonage-house to have the beds well-aired, and every thing in order to receive her master, his lady, and her sister; with three gentlemen of rank and fortune, together with an humble female friend. Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel
• Ultimately, however, power clung to the warrior classes and to the lords with their own private retinues.
• Sathe Clan Lords and their retinues had been arriving in Mainport for the past week and the town was buzzing as merchants made the most of the sudden boom in trade.
• Landowners retained their own armed retinues, which might be used for law enforcement or in civil or foreign wars.
• When he is here, he prefers to dismiss his retinue and dress himself—he is much quicker than one would expect for a prince, but then he was for a long time a stone-broke prince in exile. Exit the Actress
• (His beard will manage the act and the three beard children will be part of the sequin dressed retinue.) Election Central | Talking Points Memo | GOP Senator Larry Craig Arrested For "Lewd Conduct" In Men's Room