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  • noun Plural form of klavern.

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Examples

  • The Anti-Defamation League estimates there are more than 40 different Klan groups, with as many as 5,000 members in more than 100 chapters, or "klaverns," across the country.

    CNN.com 2008

  • The Anti-Defamation League estimates there are more than 40 different Klan groups, with as many as 5,000 members in more than 100 chapters, or "klaverns," across the country.

    Signs of the Times 2008

  • The Anti-Defamation League estimates there are more than 40 different Klan groups, with as many as 5,000 members in more than 100 chapters, or "klaverns," across the country.

    CNN.com 2008

  • The Anti-Defamation League estimates there are more than 40 different Klan groups, with as many as 5,000 members in more than 100 chapters, or "klaverns," across the country.

    AOL News 2008

  • The Anti-Defamation League estimates there are more than 40 different Klan groups, with as many as 5,000 members in more than 100 chapters, or “klaverns,” across the country.

    Jury awards $2.5 million to teen beaten by Klan members 2008

  • In this interesting quilt of historical narrative and family memoir, McWhorter, a journalist who grew up in Birmingham, charts the collusion and connections between these two apparently disparate worlds of buffets and bombs -- between the polite precincts of establishment whites ( "Big Mules," in Birmingham parlance) and the klaverns of the Ku Klux Klan.

    The Big Mules Of Birmingham 2007

  • One thread is McWhorter's search to understand how her own father, the son of a prominent family, descended into the murky world of the klaverns.

    The Big Mules Of Birmingham 2007

  • Just as high school basket-ball—also hitting its stride in the early 1920s—gave Indiana communities tradition and pride expressed in energy and ritual, Stephenson gave them klaverns, klavalcades, konklaves, and kloranic orders—a goofy fraternity at once slapstick and menacing.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • Just as high school basket-ball—also hitting its stride in the early 1920s—gave Indiana communities tradition and pride expressed in energy and ritual, Stephenson gave them klaverns, klavalcades, konklaves, and kloranic orders—a goofy fraternity at once slapstick and menacing.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

  • Just as high school basket-ball—also hitting its stride in the early 1920s—gave Indiana communities tradition and pride expressed in energy and ritual, Stephenson gave them klaverns, klavalcades, konklaves, and kloranic orders—a goofy fraternity at once slapstick and menacing.

    Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

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