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Definition of Coteries
1. coterie [n] - See also: coterie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coteries
Literary usage of Coteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Critical History of Free Thought in Reference to the Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar (1863)
"AN account of these coteries may be seen in Schlosser's Hist, of Eighteenth ...
These coteries were specially four : viz. (1) that of Madame De Tencin, ..."
2. The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning by Oliphant (Margaret) (1882)
"CHAPTER V. THE coteries BEFORE WORDSWORTH—THE SWAN OF LICHFIELD. ... If the
coteries were dying out in London, where the old lion's roar grew feebler, ..."
3. The Americans in Their Moral, Social and Political Relations by Francis Joseph Grund (1837)
"By American manners I do not mean those of the fashionable coteries, nor the
peculiar customs of certain districts, to which the refinements of society have ..."
4. Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson: An Historical Biography Based on Letters and by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1888)
"... everyone in Naples knew she was only the ambassador's mistress. Everyone, of
course, means everyone in the fashionable coteries of the capital. ..."
5. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"Miss Monc- ton had met with the Doctor at Brighton, where that animated lady
eagerly sought him as a gem to crown her coteries; persevering in her attacks ..."
6. Venice: Its Individual Growth from the Earliest Beginnings to the Fall of by Pompeo Molmenti, Horatio Forbes Brown (1907)
"AND THE UNIVERSITY OF PADUA — THE PRESS, LIBRARIES, LITERARY coteries, AND
ACADEMIES THE Venetian government, in its care for all that might ..."
7. Manual of Political Ethics by Francis Lieber (1875)
"coteries are unjust because they see distortedly. — May we do what the Law either
positively, or by not prohibiting, permits ? I. IT has been my endeavor to ..."
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