camarilla
- n a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
- Camarilla or no camarilla, intrigue or no intrigue, the German Chancellor today is Lieut.
- In substance he pictured Pope Pius as surrounded by a Vatican camarilla who concealed from His Holiness every fact favorable to Fascism and furthermore concealed from the Holy .
- The Essener National-Zeitung announced that the Rumanian Nazi-shooting had been ordered by a Jewish and Masonic camarilla which included friends and relatives of Mme Lupescu.