(n.) An officer of princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses.
Example Sentences:
(1) They apparently felt liberty was better served by an arrangement under which ministers could quietly and privately negotiate the future of the press with equerries at the palace – just so long as parliament itself doesn't get a look in.
(2) The jury were given a brief glimpse into the world of the royal palaces seeing lists of workers with job titles such as gentleman's usher, swan warden and extra equerry and departments including royal box drivers and stud drivers.
(3) One page of the internal telephone directory was shown on screen which included details for workers including equerries, the royal helicopter pilot, private personal secretaries for the royal princes and contact for the "swan warden", who the judge noted was a professor who lived in Oxfordshire.
(4) The jury heard that among those whose numbers were listed in the directories were the Keeper of the Privy Purse, The Lord Warden of the Stannaries, equerries, ladies-in-waiting, gentleman ushers, extra gentleman ushers and the Swan Warden who proved to be a professor in Oxford.
(5) The lucky seven who will take my place instead at today’s christening ceremony for the future king at the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace will be: Zara Tindall, the royal Olympian and William’s cousin; friends Oliver Baker, Emilia Jardine-Paterson, Earl (Hugh) Grosvenor, Julia Samuel and William van Cutsem; and Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, the couple’s part-time principal private secretary and equerry.
Querry
Definition:
(n.) A groom; an equerry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier, Yearwood had been communicating with John Sheehan, a security expert at Accor, which owns Sofitel, and whose boss, René-Georges Querry, once worked with a man now in intelligence for Sarkozy.