#cortege

• Retinue — A large group of people accompanying a prominent person, a solemn procession, a sumptuous ceremony, or a wedding party; retinue, cortege, pomp. In a Romanian historical and folkloric sense, the term denotes all participants in traditional wedding or holiday rituals, as well as the noisy and picturesque manifestation of an organized group.
• Ancient retinue — An old spelling form or regional phonetic variant of the noun 'alai', used in medieval chronicles and local dialects to designate a sumptuous cortege, a boyar retinue, or a noisy public procession. This term preserves the archaic nuance of solemn collective events at the princely courts of the past.