con·clave /ˈkɑnˌklev/
  祕密會議,教皇選舉會議,紅衣主教團
  Con·clave n.
  1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
  2. The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals.
     It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.   --South.
  3. A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
     The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London.   --Macaulay.
  To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.
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  conclave
       n : a confidential or secret meeting