a small group of people, especially a group of advisers to a ruler or politician, with a shared, typically nefarious, purpose (尤指有共同邪恶目的,为统治者或政客服务的)智囊团,顾问团,幕僚 This camarilla alone had the sultan's ear. 苏丹只听取这个幕僚集团的意见。
语源
mid 19th cent.: from Spanish, diminutive of camara 'chamber'