equerry
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A person who helps a member of the royal family with duties and personal tasks
- noun
- /ˈɛkwəri/
- UK
:
ecuestre
- As the royal equerry, he assists the prince during public engagements.
- Chief Equerry
- royal equerries
Examples
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The Chief Equerry remembered her with feeling.
Fiction book (2001) -
I'm the King's equerry, Sir.
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I'm the Queen Mother's equerry.
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He's talking to a man who was a royal equerry.
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At the time of the alien contact, he was in the employ of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as equerry.
Blog text (3) -
The equerry helped organize the ceremonial events for the royal family.
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She became the equerry to the queen, overseeing her daily schedule.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Equerry comes from an old French word écuyer, which meant 'squire' or 'shield-bearer', and squires were the people who looked after a knight's horses. So an equerry was originally the officer in charge of the royal horses and now usually serves as a personal attendant to a member of the royal family.