retinue

How To Use retinue In A Sentence

• On the fringes of this retinue, lions and crocodiles pounce on their victims while an elephant runs amok, and at the centre is the Navab, enlarged as befits his status, bending from his richly caparisoned mount to slash at a lion.
• I hurried down the aisle and reached the door in time to glimpse Nepos and his retinue of attendants heading across the Forum in the direction of the rostra. CONSPIRATA
• There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen.
• Alfred answered the Danish threat by creating an impressive system of fortified burhs [boroughs] throughout his realm and by reforming the fyrd, changing it from a sporadic levy of king's men and their retinues into a standing force.
• In royal households where a whole retinue of courtiers was employed, more and more varied dishes in total, and dishes of higher status, were offered to those of higher rank and standing in the household.
• One entire flank of the Witch King's army was held by Chaos Knights and their bestial retinues.
• In the 10th to 12th centuries the boyars formed the senior levels of the princes' retinues.
• On his land, the Lord owned a hearth-hall, within which he housed his retinue of warriors.
• And they are very far from any thought that their licentious groupings would provide an avenue for the emergence of a patriarch with a retinue of teen-wives.
• However he requires his retinue and guests always to dress formally for dinner.