French term
Ireland
20 yrs+ quality translations, Trados
Native in: Spanish 
, English (Variants: British, Irish, UK, US)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Italian to English, and 8 more.
entourage
En ma qualité de notaire chargé du règlement de" la succession de la personne ci-dessus visée, je vous informe que celle-ci vous a institué légataire universelle.
Vous voudrez bien trouver sous ce pli une copie de son testament.
Selon son entourage madame xxx était célibataire sans enfant.
Il conviendrait de procéder à une ouverture avec un serrurier dans les meilleurs délais et peut être pourrions nous procéder par la même occasion à l'inventaire du mobilier.
Je vous remercie de m'adresser votre comparution.
Feb 1, 2022 12:31: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "Will" to "In a will"
Feb 1, 2022 13:04: AllegroTrans changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
PRO (2): Adrian MM., Jennifer Levey
Non-PRO (3): Nikki Scott-Despaigne, Yvonne Gallagher, AllegroTrans
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Proposed translations
Psychologist, Court-certified legal
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English
family and friends, relatives and relations, family/social circle
https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/entourage
"B.− Ensemble des personnes qui vivent habituellement auprès (de quelqu'un). Les gens, les personnes de (son) entourage. Je commence à comprendre que les saints devaient être un peu agaçants pour leur entourage (Montherl., Maître Sant.,1947, II, 3, p. 636).Son entourage le gâte par trop de complaisances (Martin du G., Notes Gide,1951, p. 1396):
Personne dans mon entourage n'était aussi drôle, aussi intéressant, aussi brillant que lui; ... Beauvoir, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée,1958, p. 28."
https://dictionnaire.lerobert.com/definition/entourage
"entourage nom masculin
Personnes qui entourent habituellement qqn, et vivent dans sa familiarité. ➙ compagnie. Une personne de son entourage."
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Further references for the usage of "social" in "social circle" and for "relations", etc; in support of a wide range of possible meanings.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/example/english/social-circ...
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/social-...
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/relation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_relation
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Lara Barnett
: Family & friends....
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Jennifer Levey
: Far too specific - entourage can include the house-keeper, cleaning-lady, neighbours, and a host of other people.//In the English language and culture I discovered as a child, 'relations' means 'members of the family'.
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Indeed. That is understood in the term "relations" (in "relatives and relations") and "social circle" (in "family and social circle"), both terms here being read as widely as required. Consider a wider meaning of the term "social".
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abe(L)solano
: Relatives and relations, yes.
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AllegroTrans
: Family & friends...and yes and even the cleaning lady may well be called upon by the notary to attest (e.g. if she was present at the death or knew where the will was kept)
43 mins
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Phillip North
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Yolanda Broad
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Anastasia Kalantzi
: Yes, as we might as well say in more formal terms "her family and friendly circle or milieu".
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SafeTex
: I'm not sure that family is okay here as she was single and had no children.I feel that a more general term might be safer here
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Andrew Paul Kennett
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Ireland
Tourism, food industry, pharmaceutical
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, French to English, Spanish to French
Ses proches
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writeaway
: Agree-but Asker needs a translation into English
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Au temps pour moi :-) disons their close relatives
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Yvonne Gallagher
: Fr > En
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AllegroTrans
: Asker needs English translation, not a French synonym, and in this case it's wrong anyway
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Chile
Human-scale Globalization
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
entourage
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Yvonne Gallagher
: not in this context unless a famous/important person https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/entoura... never said it was always necessary! Can even sometimes be used jokingly. I said IN THIS CONTEXT
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Being famour/important is not a pre-requisite for having an 'entourage' in English.
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Lara Barnett
: Not as a general form of expression though.// But this part of the text is clearly from the notaries current letter, rather than the will itself.
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The ST is a will, probably drafted by a lawyer, hence not confined to 'general forms of expression'.//OK, drafted by a notary - but don't notaries use the same dictionaries, the same hifalutin' style, as most lawyers? Of course they do!
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AllegroTrans
: I have never seen this word used in English in THIS context; and it;s not from a legal doc, it's from a letter
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United Kingdom
Expertise, accuracy and style
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English, Dutch to English
those around her
Agree with Carol (discussion entry) - it doesn't seem to be a legal term as such.
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Quite literally, your entourage means the people around you.
As quoted by Nikki S-D above:
"entourage
Personnes qui entourent habituellement qqn"
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Yvonne Gallagher
: or "those who knew her" / see this has been "lifted" by someone forever bitching about copycats.LOL
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Lara Barnett
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Jennifer Levey
: OK in layman's language, but this is a formal document, a will, drafted by a lawyer using the appropriate terminology. // Try telling them that! :)
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Nothing prevents lawyers from writing in plain language.
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AllegroTrans
: Layman's language but quite suitable here; the text appears to be a letter from a notary to a lay client, so not a formal document at all
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Exactly. It's natural language and deserves a natural translation.
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: Layman's language and used in multiple contexts including social, medical, legal and others.
53 mins
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Bourth
: The term that came naturally to me and IMHO is no less formal than 'entourage'.
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SafeTex
: I like Yvonne's idea (those who know her)
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Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
(leg.) from personal in/enquiries made of her contacts; (coll.) according to those who knew her
NB 'those around her' is already in the glossaries - see the second weblink.
all due inquiries have been made appropriate to the circumstances (Chard v. Chard [1956] P259 (PD)
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AllegroTrans
: "according to those who knew her (or him)" works well, no need here for anything more formal since it's the notary writing to an heir
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Thanks, Chris. Pity our Irish colleagues never picked up on my Lord Lucan nod in their direction.
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Jennifer Levey
: Agree with AT, inasmuch the translation must be at least as generic as entourage is in French.
5 hrs
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Gracias, merci and thanks, Jennifer.
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Anastasia Kalantzi
22 hrs
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Efaristo, merci and thanks, Anastasia.
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Discussion
Just a thought!