coterie: [18] In Old French, coterie was a term for an association of peasant tenants under the feudal system. It was probably derived from an unrecorded *cote ‘hut’. This would have been borrowed from Middle Low German kote, a relative of English cote and cot. In French the word gradually broadened out in meaning to ‘group of people sharing a common interest’, the sense in which English borrowed it in the mid- 18th century.
coterie (n.)
1738, from French coterie "circle of acquaintances," originally in Middle French an organization of peasants holding land from a feudal lord (14c.), from cotier "tenant of a cote" (see cottage).
实用例句
1. The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
他录制的这些歌是由几名酷爱音乐的作曲家谱写的。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The verses were copied out , handed about , sneered at, admired, passed from coterie to coterie.
这些诗, 有人抄录,有人传阅, 有人鄙夷, 也有人赞美, 从一伙人传到另一伙人.
来自辞典例句
3. Sunge entrusted a special coterie with disposing his property.
孙哥委托一个特殊团体处理他的财产.
来自互联网
4. It is in light of insurance coterie, it is really a little.
在保险圈内人来看, 的确是有点儿.
来自互联网
5. The name is known to only a small coterie of collectors.
