The word 'retinue' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a group of attendants or followers who accompany a person of high rank or importance. Example: The queen's retinue of royal guards and ladies-in-waiting followed closely behind her as she made her grand entrance into the palace.
She and her young retinue outnumber the few passers-by, most of whom dodge the proffered pamphlets.
For all but five nights of his first month, he and his retinue went out to expensive bars and restaurants.
Tony Blair and his retinue got little sleep at the European Union's hard-fought summit in Nice, which ended in the early hours of Monday morning.
But repression is hardly the way a successful, modern power wants to govern.In 1959 the Dalai Lama's escape from his homeland produced a myth: that he had conjured up a belt of cloud to hide his retinue from the Chinese air force.
The sun and its retinue condensed from a rotating disc of gas and dust, and anything produced this way should have ended up in a more-or-less circular orbit, such as those the modern planets follow.One idea is that the two eccentrics were kicked into their orbits by a close encounter with Neptune (which is how the Kuiper belt is thought to have been created).
He was also a member of the University Players, the summer-stock retinue on Cape Cod that helped launch the careers of James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Henry Fonda, among others.
"General Taylor never made any great show or parade either of uniform or retinue".
In the lowest section, or podium, the emperor and his retinue had a special box; on the opposite side of the amphitheatre, but still in the podium, the vestal virgins, consuls, praetors, ambassadors, priests, and other distinguished guests were seated; the rest of the first gallery contained senators and those of the equestrian rank.
They initially went to Italy, where Louis (Ludwig) of Bavaria, the Holy Roman Emperor, was in Pisa at the time, along with his court and retinue.
His vast retinue, of over 200 Fijian soldiers and police, was perhaps intended to embarrass Australian and New Zealand diplomats.Mr Bainimarama, who doubles as Fiji's military commander and prime minister, is an ambitious sort.
But for the country's First Lady a retinue is not an optional extra.Other fumblings can be explained by the fact that she is a newcomer to New York's high-voltage politics.
