camarillas
- plural of camarilla.
Example Sentences
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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
