Retainer

In the SCA a retainer is someone who supports or assists a higher ranking individual. Most commonly retainers are seen with Royalty.

An associated SCAism is to backform a verb out of this. "I'm retaining for Her Majesty this afternoon."

External Links

• http://genvieve.net/sca/retainerhandout-jclark.html
• http://web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~malarkey/sca/brandi/royalty.html