Definition of "equerry" [eq•uer•ry]

• A personal attendant to the British royal household. (noun)
• An officer charged with supervision of the horses belonging to a royal or noble household. (noun)

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• "None of the children had any very clear idea as to the meaning of that word 'equerry'; therefore it always filled them with a vague terror of unknown possibilities."
• ""I can only speak of what I saw -- of the keepers of the horses, and of the other men, whom, in my unfamiliarity with military fashions, I will call equerry, armorer, and squire or page."
• "Jonsson stepped into the breach, marrying the former Duchess of York's equerry in August 2003."