entouragen.
/ˈɒntᵿrɑːʒ/, /ˈɒ̃tᵿrɑːʒ/, U.S. /ˈˌɑntəˈˌrɑʒ/, /ˈˌɑntuˈˌrɑʒ/ Surroundings, environment; esp. the assemblage of persons who surround, or are in attendance on, a superior.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > that which surrounds > a surrounding space or area > totality of surroundings or environment
circumstancea1340
encompassure1600
environry1600
vironry1600
attendment1646
circumambiency1646
ambience1648
environment1725
circumjacency1751
environ1762
environage1831
setting1841
enshrinement1849
entourage1850
milieu1854
surroundings1861
ambiente1862
mise-en-scène1871
surround1922
Umwelt1964
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > collective or company of
hirdiferec1275
train1541
yeomanryc1660
entourage1850
surrounding1877
surroundings1894
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxi. 206 There was a taint about the house and its entourages.
1859 T. De Quincey Cæsars (rev. ed.) in Wks. X. 231 The simplicity of its republican origin had..affected the..entourage of the imperial office.
1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) VI. 52 Renard..had been nervously struck by the entourage which surrounded Elizabeth.
1886 J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II Introd. 32 The appearance and entourage of the original paper.
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