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.
My brother was servile; he has attached himself to the retinue of a wealthy Baroness.
The intervention of the retinue of Roderic was scarcely admitted.
I have fled from myself; I have fled from the magnificence of my retinue, to find variety.
His equipages and retinue were of a kind to match his personal effulgence.
He provided a house for her, and assigned to her service a retinue of domestics.
A house fit for a sovereign prince, and a retinue like that of royalty!
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.
