Friday, August 18, 2006

Words: coterie [MW]

Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French, tenants, from Old French cotier, cotter, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English cot hut
: an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose

1 Comments:

At 5:38 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, I like this word. I have used it to describe "my men" (the unifying common interest being me, of course!)

 

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