EuroLex/F/Entourage


 * Original language: French
 * Original form and meaning: entourage - 1. environment, surrounding; 2. bypass; 3. enclosure

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)

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Etymology: from Fr. entourage, from OF entour "that which surrounds", from en- "in" + tour "a circuit", from OF tour, tourn "a turn, trick, round, circuit, circumference", from torner, tourner "to turn", from L tornare "to polish, round off, fashion, turn on a lathe"

Sense of "attendant persons" first recorded in English 1860.

Source: http://www.etymonline.com

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