Crossword clues for camarilla
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Camarilla \Ca`ma*ril"la\, n. [Sp., a small room.]
The private audience chamber of a king.
A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.
Wiktionary
n. A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal
WordNet
Wikipedia
Camarilla may refer to:
- Camarilla, an unofficial group of courtiers or favorites surrounding and influencing a king or ruler, specifically the two such groups prominent in German history.
- The Camarilla, a fictional society or sect of vampires in the role-playing games created by the fantasy and horror publisher White Wolf, Inc.
A camarilla is a group of courtiers or favourites who surround a king or ruler. Usually, they do not hold any office or have any official authority at court but influence their ruler behind the scenes. Consequently, they also escape having to bear responsibility for the effects of their advice. The term derives from the Spanish word, camarilla (diminutive of cámara), meaning "little chamber" or private cabinet of the king. It was first used of the circle of cronies around Spanish King Ferdinand VII (reigned 1814-1833). The term involves what is known as cronyism. The term also entered other languages like the German and Greek language, and is used in the sense given above.
A similar concept in modern politics is that of a Kitchen Cabinet, which is often composed of unelected advisers bypassing traditional governance practices.
Usage examples of "camarilla".
Madame President will die, the gerontocratic camarilla around her will fall out with each other and with the security forces, the Society will split, and the crowd will pour through the gap.
It had been unusual to foster a high-blood living vampire child into a sympathetic camarilla, taking her from home and family for her last two years of high school, but Piscary, the master vampire her family looked to, had become too intense in his interest in her before she developed the mental tools to deal with it, and her parents had intervened at some cost, probably saving her sanity.
The Camarilla, Prince Benison and all his ilk, ignored the insolence of the anarchs because centuries ago there had been a war with the anarchs, and now the Camarilla had no other choice.
Major Oskar von Hindenburg, of Otto von Meissner, the State Secretary to the President, of Papen and other members of the palace camarilla, the President was finally weakening.
The main one is that all the damning evidence of the Camarilla and what it did is still in existence.
It was an obvious choice, when you stop to think about it, something both the Camarilla and the Custodians agree on.
Domain, and especially in Frostpile, I think, the Camarilla has its plants.
The existence of the Camarilla would explain everything that had happened to Floyt and Alacrity.
Repository defenses and procedures for destroying Camarilla and other material.
The destruction of lesser materials might begin, as a precautionary measure, but not obliteration of the Camarilla evidence.
Besides, this message indicates that there is still at least one and possibly several active Camarilla contacts at Frostpile.
To forestall any attempts by Floyt to return to Terra, a Spican flotilla commanded by a Camarilla member had been dispatched to the Solar system under the cover of a goodwill tour.
The ones who broke the news about that Camarilla thing and shittubed the Earthservice?
Earth-service almost singlehandedly and making the Alpha-bureaucrats tell all they knew about the Camarilla that had kept the planet in isolation for two hundred years.
Janusz and Victoria Roper, the former Langstretch op, both of whom had led the fight against the Camarilla, had been captured.