coterie (kotere)

[F., a set, circle, coterie, In the scientific coteries of Paris there is just now an American name well known - that of Benjamin Franklin. D. G. Mitchell, Bound Together, iv. The danger, the bloodshed, the patriotism, had been blending coteries into communities. intervenim of some Continents, p. 145. The House developed a marked tendency to split up into a number of cliques and coteries , banded together for the propagation of some crotchet. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 133.