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• n  the group following and attending to some important person

• As NSA director, he sometimes dropped in on CIA station chiefs in embassies overseas but without the usual retinue of aides.
• As time went by, he accumulated friends: along with his astute and faithful dog, Snowy, his retinue included cantankerous sailor Captain Haddock and eccentric egghead Professor.
• It was an entire year after the discovery when he and his retinue arrived in a caravan of 400 automobiles at the pumping station of Ras Tanura to witness the first tanker hauling .

• cortege
• suite
• entourage

News & Articles

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• Macon man getting home renovation from HGTV star
  Steve Bell could have chosen to surround his house with a moat or have a retinue of guards protect his College Street home for a week.
  Nov. 18, 2013 - Macon Telegraph

Quotes

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• David Miliband in The Australian
  Commenting on the sanctions efforts, British foreign minister David Miliband told Channel Four news: "We're working very hard because I think it's vital that President Mugabe and his retinue of elite people who are keeping him going feel the pain...
• Sen Mike Gravel in AFP
  You know, we don't travel around with a retinue of media in a private jet,said Mike Gravel, a rank outsider for the Democratic nomination who has raised just 239,000 dollars overall.
• Lynda La Plante in BBC News
  La Plante said she found the BBC's drama department "very depressing", as she had meet a "retinue of people" to get to drama controller Ben Stephenson.