Baskets of game had reached her house, but not a single line, in his own hand, had met her eye. Better it should be so: Georgiana was not yet in a state to "lure the gentle tassel back," but no thanks to the chatteringcoterie whom she had courted for the sole purpose of rendering the marquis reassured on the subject of proper acquaintance.
The verses were copied out, handed about, sneered at, admired, passed fromcoterie tocoterie.
1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, inRailway Magazine, page18:
The branch was worked by pull-and push[sic] trains, drawn or propelled by one of a smallcoterie of the sprightly little Wolverhampton type of 0-4-2 side tanks.
2011 March 7, Brooks Barnes, Bill Carter, Michael Cieply, “Sheen Is Surrounded by a Coterie of Enablers”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:
In the case of a crack-smoking, prostitute-frequenting Mr. Sheen, many people in Hollywood say there is a long list of enablers: managers and agents and publicists; acoterie of assistants and party buddies; prostitutes, drug dealers and sex film stars; and the tabloid media, which have fed on Mr. Sheen’s antics for years.
2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, inThe Guardian[2]:
So the thought of closing the Academy is not based in malice; the action might prove enlightening and refreshing. The old clubcoterie has very little excuse, and its loss would leave few casualties.
Thecoterie was located in the middle of our wheat field.
2000, Edward O. Wilson,Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, page473:
The population of eachcoterie constantly changes over a period of a few months or years, by death, birth, and emigration. But thecoterie boundary remains about the same, being learned by each prairie dog born into it.
2001, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson,The Emperor's Embrace: The Evolution of Fatherhood:
The odd part of prairie dog life is that this friendly state exists only among the members of eachcoterie, and does not extend betweencoteries.
2009, Miriam Aronin,The Prairie Dog's Town: A Perfect Hideaway, page22:
Young prairie dogs in acoterie are brothers and sisters. They have the same father and sometimes the same mother. To find a mate from a different family, young prairie dogs must travel to a new area.
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