What is "coterie"

Usage examples of "coterie".

Some people therefore think that Armado was intended as a satire on Raleigh for the amusement of the Essex coterie.

I walked amongst them with more knowledge now than when I had first discovered them here, and even fancied I could tell which ones had been worked by Elderling hands and which were the work of Six Duchies Skill coteries.

The conflict of opinions and parties, of privilege and freedom, of science and obscurantism, was transferred from the secret chamber of a small, privileged, professional, and sacerdotal coterie to the arena of the reading public.

In 1997, Wolfowitz and a coterie of neo-cons formed the Project for a New American Century, funded by money from Richard Mellon Scaife and his nutty, ultra-right-wing friends, the Olins and the Bradleys.

Major earnestly pressed to conduct Camilla to this coterie, assuring her Mrs.

A week ago he would have fled from the very thought of a modiste and her coterie of seamstresses, or fittings.

Even Simpson and his coterie, for once, refrained from their usual recriminations and protests.

Well rested when his coterie comes and tries to claim my dragon as their own.

Every coterie of seamers drifted on tethers and tried to outdo its counterparts for smoothness of joining and accuracy of component integration.

Chade and Prince Dutiful and his contingent of nobles and his Witted coterie were all up on the deck, looking on as the ship approached Zylig.

The Witted coterie was housed alongside the guardsmen outside the walls.

As early as May, Hamilton had launched a letter campaign to his High Federalist coterie declaring Adams unfit and incapable as President, a man whose defects of character were guaranteed to bring certain ruin to the party.

As the five men entered one of the cardrooms several of the inevitable spectators drew away from the other games and approached their table, for it was a matter of club gossip that these five played for the largest stakes of any coterie among the habitues of the card-room.

For Comus this first-night performance, with its brilliant gathering of spectators, its groups and coteries of lively talkers, even its counterfoil of dull chatterers, its pervading atmosphere of stage and social movement, and its intruding undercurrent of political flutter, all this composed a tragedy in which he was the chief character.

Carved by coteries or Elderlings, the memory-stone took on the shapes they gave it, and came to life.