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entourage - 4 dictionary results

en⋅tou⋅rage

[ahn-too-rahzh]
–noun
1. a group of attendants or associates, as of a person of rank or importance: The opera singer traveled with an entourage of 20 people.
2. surroundings; environment: a house with a charming entourage of trees and flowers.
3. Architecture. the landscaping and other nearby environmental features shown on a rendering of a building.

Origin:
1825–35; < F, equiv. to entour(er) to surround (deriv. of entour around, equiv. to en in + tour circuit; see tour ) + -age -age


1. retinue, following, cortege, escort.
en·tou·rage   (ŏn'tŏŏ-räzh')   
n.  
  1. A group of attendants or associates; a retinue.
  2. One's environment or surroundings.

[French, from entourer, to surround, from Old French entour, surroundings : en-, in; see en-1 + tour, circuit; see tour.]

Entourage

En`tou`rage"\ ([aum]N`t[=oo]`r[.a]zh"), n. [F.] Surroundings; specif., collectively, one's attendants or associates.

The entourage and mode of life of the mikados were not such as to make of them able rulers. --B. H. Chamberlain.
Language Translation for : entourage
Spanish: séquito,
German: die Begleitung,
Japanese: 側近たち

entourage 
1832, "surroundings, environment," picked up by De Quincey from Fr. entourage, from O.Fr. entour "that which surrounds," from en- "in" + tour "a circuit" (see tour). Sense of "attendant persons" first recorded in Eng. 1860.
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