[Fr.; f. entourer to surround, f. entour that which surrounds, f. en in + tour circuit.] Surroundings, environment; esp. the assemblage of persons who surround, or are in attendance on, a superior.
1832–4. De Quincey, Cæsars, Wks. X. 231. The simplicity of its republican origin had … affected the … entourage of the imperial office.
1850. Thackeray, Pendennis, lix. (1885), 578. The house and its entourage.
1860. Froude, Hist. Eng., VI. 52. Renard … had been nervously struck by the entourage which surrounded Elizabeth.
1886. Magd. College & Jas. II. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), VI. Introd. 32. The appearance and entourage of the original paper.
