1876. World, V. No. 110. 20. That Cowes is not what it used to be; that it is becoming so ‘cliquey.’
1881. Ethel Coxon, A Basil Plant, I. 199. Before her marriage she had seen but little of artistic and literary society of the more ‘cliquey’ nature.
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 16 June, 1/1. Political movements have escaped the control of club committees, which are usually the cliquiest of cliques, without authority, sympathy, or influence.
