Klavalier

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A member of the Ku Klux Klan's "secret police" or flogging squads.

    "In Indiana County, seventeen of twenty-four klavalier applicants were from the mining industry[…]"

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"In Indiana County, seventeen of twenty-four klavalier applicants were from the mining industry[…]"

Etymology

Blend of Klan + cavalier.

Related phrases

ku klux klansecret police

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