klavalier
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
klavalier (plural klavaliers)
- A member of the Ku Klux Klan's "secret police" or flogging squads.
- 1997, Philip Jenkins, Hoods and shirts: the extreme right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950, page 73:
- In Indiana County, seventeen of twenty-four klavalier applicants were from the mining industry […]