LekhoriLekhoriA group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors / darkened from it by a shadow. / And Igor said to his retinue: / “Brothers and companions! It is better to be slain than taken captive. / Mount, brothers, your swift horses that we may glimpse the Blue Don.”
A service relationship.
From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”). Doublet of ritenuto.
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