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The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary
143 vocabulary words, including people, places, music, artists, etc.
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coterie
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synonyms: cenacle ???
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Definition:a small exclusive group of people with shared interests; a clique
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Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials.
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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the center of that one of the coteries of the Petersburg world with which Anna was, through her husband, in the closest relations.
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he lavished jewels and luxuries of all kinds upon her, which she took with inimitable grace, dispensing the hospitality of his superb mansion with the same graciousness with which she had welcomed the intellectual coterie of Paris.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel
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The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in heroes.
Victor Hugo. Les Misérables
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