COTERIE
An exclusive set or circle of persons who are in the habit of meeting and socializing
“The place of rendezvous is generally the vicinity of a mill, the proprietor of which, by affording to these wandering tribes an undisturbed asylum, not only secures his property from their depredations, but, by the idle tales with which they contrive to amuse his ear, respecting the characters and conduct of his neighbors, furnishes himself with new subjects of conversation for his next evenings coterie.”
J. G. Zimmermann
