0 a small group of people with shared interests, often one that does not want other people to join them:
a coterie of writers
The schools, the disciplines, the subdisciplines, the coteries, the paradigms, and the ideologies have built too many walls.
Despite the small theatre coteries in which they moved, the differences in their educational, religious, and client-patronage ambits contributed to divergent dramaturgic practices and preoccupations.
The move away from the coterie, the reliance on esoteric language and system, is also an escape from a sanctioned common sense.
The security and shared friendships of the coterie audience are gradually replaced by the marketplace: publishers, printers, and paying readers are the new coterie.
He was received enthusiastically by affluent coteries, by high officials, and by music and drama circles.
Other isolated individuals may form a coterie of like-minded colleagues.
Cogan was a well-known singer who also had developed a coterie of show-business types who regularly attended parties at her home.
Let them keep the potentate and his coterie sweet + let them adopt suitable postures of abasement and ingratiation + and they can give their future a very bright, functioning complexion.
