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# equerry

«equerry» in Mova's school dictionary: **An officer who looks after the horses of a king, queen or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (equerries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An officer who looks after the horses of a king, queen or prince and rides beside them on journeys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equerry/#m1)

2) (old use) A royal attendant who helps a princess or lady of high rank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equerry/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales, the princess's equerries are the servants who ride or wait on her and bow when she comes

### examples

- The king's equerry held the prince's horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equerry/#x1)
- The princess's equerries bowed low as she passed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equerry/#x2)
- An equerry must always be ready to ride at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equerry/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «equerry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/equerry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.