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klavalier

noun

Etymology

Blend of Klan + cavalier.

  1. derived from caballus
  2. derived from caballārius
  3. derived from cavalier
  4. derived from cavaliere
  5. borrowed from cavalier
  6. compounded as klavalier — “Klan + cavalier”

Definitions

  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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA