(noun) an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose
These works "cannot reach more than the limited coterie of aesthetes".
Quoting Anthony Blunt
the small, vibrant coterie of Apostles to which he belonged at Cambridge
on Bertrand Russell
But their relationship took a different turn as she became part of the coterie.
he's seamlessly assembled a coterie of corporate bosses into his transition team
the small coterie of devoted David Foster Wallace obsessives from that period
It takes the meaning-of-life question out of the hands of a coterie of adepts or cognoscenti and returns it to the routine business of everyday existence.
The Bolshevik revolution was made not by a secret coterie of conspirators but by individuals openly elected in the popular, representative institutions known as soviets.
composers tended to move into avant-garde coteries