| 释义 |
Kleagle|ˈkliːg(ə)l|
[f. Klan + eagle n.]
A title given to an officer of the Ku-Klux-Klan.
1924J. M. Mecklin Ku Klux Klan i. 8 The head of the promotion department as a whole was Imperial Kleagle E. Y. Clarke... The head of the ‘realm’, or state, was called a King Kleagle, and the house-to-house solicitors, or legwork men, were called Kleagles. 1924E. T. Bynum Personal Recoll. 8 The Kleagle showed considerable irritation in the conversation which followed. 1929Sun (Baltimore) 31 Jan. 1/2 There was a time when Johnston could have called the roll of the kleagles and merely waited for donations to roll in. 1949Time 13 June 24/1 Samuel Green, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, was frantically exhorting his Kleagles and Cyclops to mass for a big night of cross-burning and hate-spieling. |