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Coterie
Answer for the clue "Coterie ", 7 letters:
cenacle
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Cenacle (from Latin cēnāculum "dining room", later spelt coenaculum and semantically drifting towards "upper room"), also known as the "Upper Room" , is a room in Jerusalem traditionally held to be the site of the Last Supper . The word is a derivative ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French cenacle , variant of cenaille (14c., Modern French cénacle ), from Latin cenaculum "dining room," from cena "mid-day meal, afternoon meal," literally "portion of food," from PIE *kert-sna- , from root *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a dining room, especially one on an upper floor (traditionally the room in which the Last Supper took place) 2 (context by extension English) a small circle or gathering of specialists (writers etc); a clique
Usage examples of cenacle.
And who do we find in Russia, a good ten years before Napoleon, as plenipotentiary of the House of Savoy, tying bonds with the mystic cenacles of St.
Because it now seemed to me, on the contrary, the dwelling of sainted men, cenacle of virtue, vessel of learning, ark of prudence, tower of wisdom, domain of meekness, bastion of strength, thurible of sanctity.