Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A local organizational unit of the Ku Klux Klan.
Wiktionary
- n. A local unit of the Ku Klux Klan.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan
Etymologies
- Klan and cavern? (Wiktionary)
- Kl(an) + (c)avern. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In fact, the most powerful "klavern" or local Klan was the Nathan Bedford Forrest Klavern #1, located in Atlanta during the 1940s and”
“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
“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.”
“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.”
“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.””
“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
“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
“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
“LAMB: Did you talk to anybody for the book that had been a member of that Klan -- klavern?”
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
“TOLD to give in my klavern/gun club, whenever someone called me on making a racially insensitive remark....”
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