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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Entourage’s meaning of “a circle of people following or attending to an important person” is captured in the “entire-age”, as in “the complete retinue”.
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... was duely impressed when I mentioned the Deputy Mayor and his entirage …
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one week later i did security for a celebrity and he got drunk and jealous and swore up and down that i slept with the clelebrity not just the celebrity but the entirage! [...] he still keeps saying from time to time i slept with them so now when he does i say sure did the whole entirage and other celebrities too!
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I counted about five examples of “entirage.” The semantic rationale seems sound, but I’m not sure the number of examples rises above the misspelling noise. “Entourage” is a hard word to spell correctly, given its French-origin accentuation.
I see quite a few more examples-a hundred or more-of “enterage.” Perhaps the writers are thinking that the entourage is what enters with a person? Examples:
Trip log: “You would have thought it was the president who got shot if you saw the enterage that followed me into the aid station.”
Game forum: “I am nowhere near tough enough to fight Scrapyard alone, even if he didn’t have his enterage, so I turn and run, and get maybe twenty yards before his people finally kill me. ”
Blog entry: “the fact that he not only embarrassed and humiliated the girl, but insulted her parents too, and did so in front of teachers, students, and the rest of his enterage alike. ”
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