扈こ従しょう

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

attendance on a superior; accompanying a dignitary

Formal, literary term for attending or escorting a superior, such as a lord or high-ranking person. Rare in modern everyday language; mostly found in historical or ceremonial contexts.

• 中ちゅう世せいの武ぶ士しは主しゅ君くんに扈こ従しょうして戦せん場じょうに向むかった。

  Medieval warriors accompanied their lord to the battlefield.

• 式しき典てんでは、高こう官かんに扈こ従しょうする随ずい員いんの姿すがたが見みられた。

  At the ceremony, attendants accompanying the high official could be seen.