First charged with “piracy,” each member of the retinue now faces seven years in jail if found guilty of “hooliganism.”
And then his retinue of friends and spiritual advisors arrived, and he floated away on a cloud of "insiderdom" and "privilege."
There is a usually a retinue of “reliable” Mohalells in each pious community.
The retinue has been the subject of much media attention.
He, his retinue, and effects, are exempt from civil and criminal jurisdiction.
The chief himself accompanied them to their canoes, followed by a retinue of nearly six hundred persons.
They are generally two hundred in number, each of whom has his palace or inn, which he occupies, with his retinue.
After her I could hear the shuffling, heavier tread of her retinue.
A house was likewise provided, capable of lodging him and his retinue with convenience.
They went about followed by a retinue of pupils and grateful patients.
late 14c., from Old French retenue "group of followers, state of service," literally "that which is retained," noun use of fem. past participle of retenir "to employ, to retain, hold back" (see retain). Related: Retinular.
