Crossword clues for equerries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equerry \Eq"uer*ry\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Equerries. [F. ['e]curie stable, for older escurie, escuirie (confused somewhat with F. ['e]cuyer, OF. escuyer, squire), LL. scuria, OHG. skiura, sc?ra, barn, shed, G. scheuer, from a root meaning to cover, protect, and akin to L. scutum shield. See Esquire, and cf. Ecurie, Querry.]
A large stable or lodge for horses.
--Johnson.-
An officer of princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses.
Note: In England equerries are officers of the royal household in the department of the Master of the Horse.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of equerry English)
Usage examples of "equerries".
Anon the Stadtholder was in the hall, booted once more and spurred, and surrounded by his equerries and by the bridal party.
The Stadtholder was back in the hall with his equerries around him, ready for departure, giving brief, decisive orders such as soldiers love to hear.
Already the Stadtholder had gone with his numerous retinue, with his bodyguard and his pike-men and with his equerries, and those of the wedding-party who had come in his train from Utrecht, friends of Mynheer Beresteyn, who had ridden over for the most part with wife or daughter pillioned behind them, and all glad to avail themselves of the protection of his Highness's escort against highway marauders, none too scarce in these parts.
Maria, who had been riding on a pillion behind one of the equerries, who she roundly trounced and anathematized all the way, came and waited on her mistress.
His valets and equerries could fuss over him all they wanted in his dressing rooms, but his bedroom was his private place: a fact he appreciated even more after the onset of puberty.
He was up half the night with the chatelaine, the head chef, and the equerries who had not gone on the hunting expedition.
KING EGDRIL with his customary eagerness replied affirmatively to the prince's invitation, and Frenery, with a select group of chefs, equerries, kennelmen, dogs, and servants went to the proposed site in the Fial Valley to prepare suitable, if temporary, quarters.
The countess had taken her charges away to the west wing, and the prince and his equerries perforce had to exchange pleasantries with Duchess Fanina.
When Erius reached the throne, noble equerries reverently lifted the square crown and bore it away on a large velvet cushion.
Tobin saw with an unpleasant start that one of the equerries was none other than Moriel the Toad.
Dust rose just beyond the next bend—and then a neat formation of blue-tunicked equerries rode into view.
The two moved to the side of the road, and the riders passed by: three rakehelly young noblemen, with three equerries riding at their backs.
The cortege now included King Casmir, Prince Cassander, the carriage, a pair of royal equerries, an escort of six knights, and a group of four men-at-arms who rode at the rear of the column and kept themselves apart from the others.
The equerries, the grooms, the ostlers—they will not gainsay the daughter of Lord Voltasus.