equerry
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The queen consort will also have a new full-time equerry: Major Ollie Plunket, of the Rifles, the palace said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022
Timothy Laurence, her lover and a former equerry to the queen.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
Her team wants to depose Robert Ashton Olney, the prince's former royal assistant known as an equerry.
From Fox News ● Jan. 31, 2022
More combative if not entirely unsympathetic is the equerry, Maj.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
The equerry galloped, there was a twinkle of armour among the leafy oaks, and Lot’s mind jumped to the trap.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
She queries the equerries; she tracks down former nannies and ladies-in-waiting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
The crowd quickened; heads turned left to watch two scarlet-liveried outriders and then three carriages and two equerries clatter out of the gates of the Palace.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2012
That afternoon, during a round of nine parishes and two towns, the Duke lost his equerries at a garden party, asked in mock dismay: "Where the devil's my escort?"
From Time Magazine Archive
By careful practice he learned to speak so exactly like the Prince of Wales that equerries to the royal brothers vow that with their eyes shut they cannot tell which prince is which.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eteoneus left the long room like an arrow, calling equerries after him, on the run.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
