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- A retinue is a body of persons "retained" in the service of a noble, royal personage, or dignitary; a suite (French "what follows") of retainers. The...
- Queen retinue pheromones (QRP) are a type of honey bee pheromones, so-called because one of their behavioral effects is to attract a circle of bees (a...
- royalty. The earliest historical examples of courtiers were part of the retinues of rulers. Historically the court was the centre of government as well...
- His Imperial Majesty's Retinue, His Imperial Majesty's Suite (abbr. H. I. M. Retinue, H. I. M. Suite; Russian: Свита, romanized: Svíta, e.g. Свита Его...
- comitatus (retinue), a group of warriors following a chief. As retinues grew larger, their names could become ****ociated with entire peoples. Many retinues functioned...
- comitatus force of the county Thus, to be able to be made into part of a retinue or force. In common law, a sheriff's right to compel people to ****ist law...
- a Chinese Ming emperor sent a princess, Hang Li Po, to Malacca, with a retinue of 500, to marry Sultan Mansur Shah after the emperor was impressed by...
- Ainslie Tavern Bond, took her prisoner on the road to Edinburgh with a retinue of 800 men and removed her to his castle at Dunbar, where he allegedly...
- of Poland "The dukes (dux) were originally the commanders of an armed retinue (drużyna) with which they broke the authority of the chieftains of the...
- creation of the bucellarii reflected an increase in the "use of armed retinues by public officials" in the Roman Empire. These armies were, therefore...