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klavern

[ klav-ern ]

noun

  1. a local branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
  2. a meeting place of the Ku Klux Klan.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of klavern1

First recorded in 1920–25; Kl(an) + (c)avern
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

Within a year of becoming “naturalized,†he’d become a Grand Knight Hawk of the “klavern†based in rural north central Florida.

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The local klavern was designated Klan No. 9, and the Daily Progress gave its meetings and cross-burnings favorable coverage.

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Ellis was the Exalted Cyclops of the Durham, N.C., klavern of the United Klans of America.

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In the 1970s and 80s it mostly manifested in the dying klaverns of the KKK, or small groups of neo-Nazis running around the Pacific Northwest robbing banks to raise funds to start race wars.

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The Klansmen had been sent out by their klavern to find a black man, any black man, and kill him.

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