Pronounced: sanz-kyoo-LOT, noun
Notes: I pretty much knew this word, but I don’t know how commonly known it is
Yesterday’s word
The word camarilla is “a group of unofficial – often secret and scheming – advisors; cabal”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Spanish word camarilla (small room), which is a diminutive of cámara (room), which came from the Latin Latin word camera (room). Political cronies and plotters are likely to meet behind closed doors in small rooms, and thus the word took on that meeting when it entered English. It is a bit rare to run across our word.
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