4 March 2016
camarilla
[kam-uh-ril-uh; Spanish kah-mah-ree-lyah, -ree-yah]
noun, plural camarillas [kam-uh-ril-uh z; Spanish kah-mah-ree-lyahs, -ree-yahs]
1. a group of unofficial or private advisers to a person of authority, especially a group much given to intrigues and secret plots; cabal; clique.
Origin of camarilla
1830-1840; < Spanish, equivalent to camar (a) room (< Latin camera; see chamber ) + -illa diminutive suffix < Latin
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Historical Examples
Truly the camarilla were supporting each other, and I, an onlooker, stood amazed and astounded.
The Minister of Evil
William Le Queux
Such were the methods of the camarilla who were ruling Russia!
The Minister of Evil
William Le Queux
Their creatures have worked their way even into the cabinet and the camarilla.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
Various
In either case the sovereignty of Ireland relapses into the hands of the permanent officials, that camarilla of Olympians.
The Open Secret of Ireland
T. M. Kettle
Anagram
a calm liar
Today’s quote
Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
– John Lennon
On this day
4 March – National Grammar Day.
4 March 1918 – first case of Spanish flu is identified when company cook, Albert Gitchell reports sick at Fort Riley, Kansas. The influenza pandemic infected 500 million people across the globe, killing an estimated 50 to 100 million people, or between 3% and 6% of the global population. The 1918 Spanish Flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS killed in 24 years. It killed more people in one year than the Bubonic Plague (Black Death), killed in a century. The flu affected the entire planet. It was named the Spanish flu after wartime censors in Germany, France, Britain and the US banned reporting of it in order to maintain morale. Spain was a neutral country during World War I, so the media was free to report the impact of the pandemic in that country, including the grave illness of Spanish King Alfonso XIII, giving rise to it being called the Spanish flu.
4 March 1987 – President Ronald Reagan admits that the U.S. negotiated the Iran-Contra deal, which swapped ‘military arms for hostages’ in order to secure the release of hostages from Iran.