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junto

[juhn-toh]

noun

plural

juntos 
  1. a self-appointed committee, especially with political aims; cabal.



junto

/ ˈdʒʊntəʊ, ˈdʒʌn- /

noun

  1. a variant of junta

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Word History and Origins

Origin of junto1

First recorded in 1635–45; alteration of junta
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Word History and Origins

Origin of junto1

C17: variant of junta
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And then chaos usurped with his animal junto.

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"Sea-green!" chimed in the flute notes of another of the gay junto, "what can equal the General's verdancy?"

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When the Revolutionary junto wished to organize its artillery, William Raymond Lee was summoned to Cambridge to command one of the companies.

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And I do hereby pledge myself to the public that I will effectually prosecute at law every one of the junto for the said scurrilous advertisement, and the resolution therein contained.

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The traveller enters their junto, and gives an account of the chief members of it, viz.,

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