0 a small group of people with shared interests, often one that does not want other people to join them: --
a coterie of writers
They have tried to build up a coterie of tight-knit groups, which are often dependent on the town hall.
By this system you elect people responsible to a small coterie.
That puts him in a very narrow and refined coterie.
My guess would be that they are the same advisers or perhaps from the same coterie of advisers.
Are they to send a coterie over to manage your affairs?
A whole coterie of people regard themselves as very important because they happen to be local councillors.
Owen especially might make more of how passionately her protagonists embraced the antiquity of their views and practices and how broadly this hunger for ancient wisdom extended outside coterie circles.
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.
