coterie

• Included in the coterie was a private detective who'd had his license lifted, and it was through his management that they located Miss Prince living in a discreet hotel in the fifties off Madison Avenue Profusely delighted with their services, Mr. Plott assigned them the next part of the job--Miss Prince had two canaries, and he wanted them. —  177 - The Angry Canary
• Thus the coterie was formed, which under such powerful patronage was bound to become a sort of unofficial commission for the regulation of literary standards. —  Vergil
• Bligh, Macquarie, and Darling had, each in succession, reported to the Colonial Office that Oxley's association with the Macarthur coterie was a source of official embarrassment. —  Thomas Mitchell
• Ninon's coterie was the very opposite, consisting as it did of the very flower of the nobility and the choicest spirits of the age, who banished dry and sterile erudition, and sparkled with the liveliest wit and polite accomplishments. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
• Dr. Franz Liszt gives the world some charming pictures of this art-coterie, which was wont often to assemble at Chopin's rooms in the Chaussee d'Antin. —  The Great German Composers

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