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  • n  an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles
  • n  a personal attendant of the British royal family

  • As the Queen's equerry -- a combination secretary and personal attendant -- for three years, Laurence learned the ways of the Windsors early.
  • The equerry looked a bit startled, the businessmen surveyed him askance.
  • A slim, excited equerry climbed and scrambled to reach Old Paul von Hindenburg, who was hunting chamois, last week, high in the Bavarian Alps.
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  • John Nettles in www.thisisthesentinel.co.uk
    But when I saw the great lady - who was very gracious - she said to me, 'Yes, Midsomer, a lot of people die there. I wouldn't like to live there',John says, in his best regal voice. "And this equerry by her side said, 'No you wouldn't...

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