equerry
Americannoun
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equerries
plural
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an officer of a royal or similar household, charged with the care of the horses.
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an officer of the British royal household who attends the sovereign or other member of the royal family.
noun
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an officer attendant upon the British sovereign
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(formerly) an officer in a royal household responsible for the horses
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Etymology
Origin of equerry
1520–30; alteration (influenced by Latin equus horse) of earlier esquiry, escuirie < Middle French escuirie stable, squires collectively, derivative of escuyer squire; see -y 3
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Timothy Laurence, her lover and a former equerry to the queen.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
She was greeted by King Charles's equerry, Lt Col Johnny Thompson, before handing in her resignation to the monarch.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2022
Her team wants to depose Robert Ashton Olney, the prince's former royal assistant known as an equerry.
From Fox News ● Jan. 31, 2022
Consider Peter Townsend, the equerry whose doomed romance with Princess Margaret is depicted in the show’s first season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2019
The equerry galloped, there was a twinkle of armour among the leafy oaks, and Lot’s mind jumped to the trap.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
She queries the equerries; she tracks down former nannies and ladies-in-waiting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
The crowd quickened; heads turned left to watch two scarlet-liveried outriders and then three carriages and two equerries clatter out of the gates of the Palace.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2012
By careful practice he learned to speak so exactly like the Prince of Wales that equerries to the royal brothers vow that with their eyes shut they cannot tell which prince is which.
From Time Magazine Archive
That afternoon, during a round of nine parishes and two towns, the Duke lost his equerries at a garden party, asked in mock dismay: "Where the devil's my escort?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Eteoneus left the long room like an arrow, calling equerries after him, on the run.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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