Brewer's: 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
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