All 3 Uses of
retinue
in
War and Peace
- It was late in the evening when they entered the palace at Olmutz occupied by the Emperors and their retinues.†
Chpt 3 *
- In Moscow as soon as he entered his huge house in which the faded and fading princesses still lived, with its enormous retinue; as soon as, driving through the town, he saw the Iberian shrine with innumerable tapers burning before the golden covers of the icons, the Kremlin Square with its snow undisturbed by vehicles, the sleigh drivers and hovels of the Sivtsev Vrazhok, those old Moscovites who desired nothing, hurried nowhere, and were ending their days leisurely; when he saw thoseā¦†
Chpt 8
- As to the serfs the only indication was that three out of their huge retinue disappeared during the night, but nothing was stolen; and as to the value of their possessions, the thirty peasant carts that had come in from their estates and which many people envied proved to be extremely valuable and they were offered enormous sums of money for them.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(retinue) a group following and attending to some important person