camarilla

Borrowed from Spanish camarilla, from cámara (“chamber”) and the diminutive suffix -illa.

camarilla (plural camarillas)

1. A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal.
   • 1990, Wall Street Journal, September 20

     The same lack of accountability has been even more disastrous for the two state-owned banks, which exist primarily to funnel IMF and World Bank funds to the president and his camarilla in the form of unsecured loans.

   • 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador 2014, p. 369:

     The negotiation dripped with bad faith on both sides, with a powerful Austrian camarilla always seeing it as a short-term deal with the Hungarians to be followed by retribution in due course.

From Spanish

camarilla f (plural camarillas)

1. camarilla

Spanish

camarilla f (plural camarille)

1. camarilla

From cámara (“chamber”) and the diminutive suffix -illa.

camarilla f (plural camarillas)

1. A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal
   • "El objetivo implícito de esta línea de pensamiento es un mundo de pesadilla en el que el líder, o alguna camarilla gobernante, controla no sólo el futuro sino también el pasado." — George Orwell, «Mirando hacia atrás a la guerra civil española.» (otoño de 1942)