Examples of klavern in a Sentence
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The 22,000-square-foot hall could hold some 2,000 people, and it was designed to be a space where the klavern -- a local unit of the Klan -- could practice marches and perform minstrel shows.
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Brandon Tensley, CNN, 16 June 2022
According to testimony in the 2005 murder trial, Killen served as a kleagle, or organizer, of the Klan in Neshoba County and helped set up a klavern, or local Klan group, in a nearby county.
—CBS News, 12 Jan. 2018
Other homeowners might be more inclined, as is Rake’s good-for-nothing brother-in-law, to pull on their white hoods and attend a meeting of the local Klan klavern in the basement of the Congregational church.
—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
Brandon Tensley, CNN, 16 June 2022
According to testimony in the 2005 murder trial, Killen served as a kleagle, or organizer, of the Klan in Neshoba County and helped set up a klavern, or local Klan group, in a nearby county.
—CBS News, 12 Jan. 2018
Other homeowners might be more inclined, as is Rake’s good-for-nothing brother-in-law, to pull on their white hoods and attend a meeting of the local Klan klavern in the basement of the Congregational church.
—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
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Word History
Etymology
blend of Klan and cavern
First Known Use
1928, in the meaning defined above
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“Klavern.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/klavern. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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