coterie

And President Bashar al-Assad, no doubt, sees that his coterie of regional despots is thinning out.

Shakespeare did not write for a coterie: yet he produced some works of considerable subtlety and profundity.

But the king and his coterie were very angry, and assailed the duke in the most violent terms of condemnation.

Cicily, my dear, I think you are well rid of that coterie of cats.

Make her, therefore, of your coterie, if she is with you while the piece is in your possession.

Each had his coterie of friends and well wishers who had gathered to give him a rousing send off.