Ku Klux Klan
See also: Ku-Klux-Klan and Kuklux Klan
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From Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) and clan, split syllabically into three words, with the first letter of clan changing to a 'k' to match the other two.
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the Ku Klux Klan
- An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization.
- 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 653:
- The very suspicion of seditious utterances against the government, suspected complicity in the Ku Klux Klan, or complaint by a negro that a white man had been uppity to him were enough to land a citizen in jail.
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Ku Klux Klan
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Ku Klux Klan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “Ku Klux Klan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Ku Klux Klan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Ku Klux Klan”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “Ku Klux Klan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Ku Klux Klan”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
