What's the difference between detinue and retinue?
Detinue
Definition:
(n.) A person or thing detained
(n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.
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Retinue
Definition:
(n.) The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Gary Neville, Hodgson’s former No2, will not be returning to the England fold the FA is keen to involve promising coaches and former internationals – Rio Ferdinand, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard have been mentioned – in the backroom retinue.
(2) On the way back from the showers, I almost walked into a small retinue of reporters.
(3) Players may have ever-expanding retinues – coaches, fitness trainers, sports psychologists, masseurs, agents and managers – but ultimately they have to do the job alone, out there in the gladiatorial setting of a packed tennis court with only their thoughts for company.
(4) The Conservative grandees were backed up by a retinue of more-or-less loyal historians.
(5) In fairness to Ms Williams, as we picture her hovering over our deathbeds with a retinue of homophobic cherubim, she does not conceal, as an evangelical activist, that her zeal has its origins somewhere far beyond the reach of reason and humankindness.
(6) The foreign minister thinks that the 2010 Smolensk air crash, in which President Lech Kaczyński and all his retinue perished, was a murder planned by President Putin.
(7) To possess one is, however, a mark of high status, just as many slaves or a large retinue of servants always has been.
(8) And that when the time has come for the celebs to have an audience with the grand old man, she has invariably stood alongside, meeting them not as the hired help but, acknowledged with all due deference for what she is, as a member of Mandela's innermost retinue.
(9) Rather than regard Kim Jong-un as a puppet, we might look at him as a youthful monarch surrounded by a retinue of close aides, advisors and gatekeepers that controls what briefing and policy papers he reads, who he talks to on the telephone and who is allowed access to him.
(10) "The majority of cardinals arrived with large retinues," Marcó said.
(11) He may even manage to hang on for a time by surrounding himself with a retinue of loyalists and retreads, among them the former Tory spin doctor turned Labour MP Shaun Woodward.
(12) He did lots of experimental student drama, and in 1988 he and a friend took a show - Grace, a poignant comedy about a diva's retinue - to the Edinburgh Festival.
(13) Instead they got a small island to themselves in the heart of the Canadian wilderness, leaving their retinue and protection officers behind and having just a chef, nesting bald eagles and the Canadian national bird, the loon, for company.
(14) But the combination of the eccentric courts and their retinues, with an insatiable and still more intrusive media, has made that role ever more difficult to perform.
(15) Nkurunziza's Haleluya retinue stays in a luxury hotel that he had built close to the stadium.
(16) A nursemaid - albeit with a whole retinue of staff to cover for the thrice-weekly lunch dates - to a husband who had long ceased to recognise her, and a campaigner on Alzheimer’s disease.
(17) In the novel the devil and his retinue (which includes a wall-eyed loon and a talking cat) manipulate “the Master”, a writer, and Margarita, his muse.
(18) The retinue channels what he decides to communicate through written documents, public speeches and interactions with low-level officials.
(19) "Saying that she is not here to preach is bullshit," said one of the small retinue of Berlin-based journalists who follow her every move.
(20) The plumose papillae and their retinue of plume cells are unique morphological structures that may be important in mastication and deglutition of food.