Both Uses
retinue
in
A Room of One's Own
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- The partridges, many and various, came with all their retinue of sauces and salads, the sharp and the sweet, each in its order; their potatoes, thin as coins but not so hard; their sprouts, foliated as rosebuds but more succulent.†
Chpt 1 *
- And no sooner had the roast and its retinue been done with than the silent servingman, the Beadle himself perhaps in a milder manifestation, set before us, wreathed in napkins, a confection which rose all sugar from the waves.†
Chpt 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(retinue) a group of people following and attending to an important person
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)