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单词 klavern
释义

klavern

noun

klav·​ern ˈkla-vərn How to pronounce klavern (audio)
often capitalized
: a local unit of the Klan

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The 22,000-square-foot hall could hold some 2,000 people, and it was designed to be a space where the klavern -- a local unit of the Klan -- could practice marches and perform minstrel shows. Brandon Tensley, CNN, 16 June 2022 According to testimony in the 2005 murder trial, Killen served as a kleagle, or organizer, of the Klan in Neshoba County and helped set up a klavern, or local Klan group, in a nearby county. CBS News, 12 Jan. 2018 Other homeowners might be more inclined, as is Rake’s good-for-nothing brother-in-law, to pull on their white hoods and attend a meeting of the local Klan klavern in the basement of the Congregational church. Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017

Word History

Etymology

blend of Klan and cavern

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

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