camarilla
Americannoun
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camarillas
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of camarilla
1830–40; < Spanish, equivalent to camar ( a ) room (< Latin camera; see chamber) + -illa diminutive suffix < Latin
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One result: today, the old, meddling palace camarilla which made and unmade Premiers in backstairs intrigues is gone.
From Time Magazine Archive
When President von Hindenburg dropped BrÜning, who had been his protege, the German military camarilla which had maneuvered BrÜning out suggested von Papen to the ancient President, who made him his new protege.
From Time Magazine Archive
He assembled a little camarilla of army officers and aristocrats and last winter began making secret trips to Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their creatures have worked their way even into the cabinet and the camarilla.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
He removes various restrictions from the press, and the moment the light of intelligence strikes upon the minds of his subjects, they call for a constitution and the overthrow of a despotic camarilla.
From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
Eco was fond of the Italian term dietrologia, which translates, not very happily, into “behindology” and presumes that secret cliques, camarillas and consortia are everywhere manipulating political scandals.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2016
A puppet in the hands of factions, living from her earliest childhood in an atmosphere of intrigue and falsehood,—the usual atmosphere of Spanish courts and camarillas, how was she to escape the contagion?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
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