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equerry

[ek-wuh-ree, ih-kwer-ee] / ˈɛk wə ri, ɪˈkwɛr i /
NOUN
groom
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NOUN
valet
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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

He detached King Carados with a strong squadron to meet King Bars, only to find that a second equerry had sprung King Ban from the opposite side of him.

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

Two years later, King George was looking for special equerries to help him keep in closer touch with the armed services.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Prince and his equerries found themselves early confronted by a mountain of letters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eteoneus left the long room like an arrow, calling equerries after him, on the run.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer




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