||Co`te*rie" (k?`te-r?"; 277),
n. [F., prob. from OF. coterie servile
tenure, fr. colier cotter; of German origin. See 1st
Cot.] A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly,
as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique. "The
queen of your coterie." Thackeray.