Camarilla(Spanish). A clique; the confidants or private advisers of the sovereign. It literally means a small private chamber, and is in Spain applied to the room in which boys are flogged. “Encircled with a dangerous camarilla.” —The Times. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Camarilla from Infoplease:
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