camarilla
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Origin of camarilla
1830–40; < Spanish, equivalent to camar ( a ) room (< Latin camera; see chamber) + -illa diminutive suffix < Latin
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He assembled a little camarilla of army officers and aristocrats and last winter began making secret trips to Paris.
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
One result: today, the old, meddling palace camarilla which made and unmade Premiers in backstairs intrigues is gone.
From Time Magazine Archive
The word which had gone forth that his capture would be grateful to the Regency and its camarilla of Dukes, would naturally sharpen the pursuit.
From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
In either case the sovereignty of Ireland relapses into the hands of the permanent officials, that camarilla of Olympians.
From The Open Secret of Ireland by Kettle, T. M. (Thomas Michael)
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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