| Back | camarilla /kam-uh-RIL-uh, Spanish: kah-mah-REE-yah/ |
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| Front | noun A group of confidential scheming advisers. [From Spanish, diminutive of cámara (chamber), from Latin camera (room), from Greek kamara (an object with an arched cover). Earliest documented use: 1839.] "In China ... successions to a bureaucratic collective leadership are managed by a tiny camarilla in a self-declared one-party state." - Simon Sebag Montefiore; In Russia, Power Has No Heirs; The New York Times; Jan 11, 2009. |
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