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n. A group of people with some common characteristic, especially a coterie of undesirable people.
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n. a coterie of undesirable people
Word Usage
""Monsieur," replied the little barber, "a plutocrat knows too well that if he mixes in that 'galere' there 's not a dog in the streets more lost than he.""