retinue

Etymology

From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”). Doublet of ritenuto.

noun

1. A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
   the queen’s retinues
   And not any longer as a king did Winter appear in those streets, as when the city was decked with gleaming white to greet him as a conqueror and he rode in with his glittering icicles and haughty retinue of prancing winds, but he sat there with a little wind at the corner of the street like some old blind beggar with his hungry dog. 1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales
   12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
2. A 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.” 1992, J. A. V. Haney and Eric Dahl, “On Igor’s Campaign” (translation of Слово о плъку Игоревѣ)
3. (obsolete) A service relationship.