Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A local organizational unit of the Ku Klux Klan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
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- noun A local unit of the
Ku Klux Klan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In fact, the most powerful "klavern" or local Klan was the Nathan Bedford Forrest Klavern #1, located in Atlanta during the 1940s and
Civil War Memory 2008
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First a caveat: While I harbor little affection for nor feel any affinity with the corrupt establishment of the Democratic Party, I don't believe, as is the case with the present leadership of the Republican party, they're a klavern of insane, death-smitten apocalypticists.
Midterm Elections 2006: It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely Black 2006
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It\'s high time someone told you outright that you must be suffering from holy water on the brain, if you think we can\'t see you for what you are: a klavern of counterfeit prophets waxing psychotic for other cretinous hypocrites.
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It's high time someone told you outright that you must be suffering from holy water on the brain, if you think we can't see you for what you are: a klavern of counterfeit prophets waxing psychotic for other cretinous hypocrites.
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Mitch Moran, another attorney for Pastor Edgar Ray Killen, claimed that another klavern or chapter “put the orders out” to kill the three and that Sam Bowers “approved it.”
Archive 2005-06-01 Michael Caddell 2005
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It's high time someone told you outright that you must be suffering from holy water on the brain, if you think we can't see you for what you are: a klavern of counterfeit prophets waxing psychotic for other cretinous hypocrites.
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Mitch Moran, another attorney for Pastor Edgar Ray Killen, claimed that another klavern or chapter “put the orders out” to kill the three and that Sam Bowers “approved it.”
MISSISSIPPI BURNING - 41 YEARS LATER Michael Caddell 2005
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LAMB: Let me stop you to ask you about what's a klavern?
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution 2001
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Ms. McWHORTER: A klavern is like a club, one of the -- the small groups of Klansmen.
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution 2001
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They had a long tradition of collaboration, and even some of the members of the -- of the klavern who perpetrated the -- the -- the bombing had been under the protection of the police.
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution 2001
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