klavalier

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noun

A member of the Ku Klux Klan's "secret police" or flogging squads.

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Meanings

nounklavalier (plural klavaliers)

plural klavaliers

  1. A member of the Ku Klux Klan's "secret police" or flogging squads.

    In Indiana County, seventeen of twenty-four klavalier applicants were from the mining industry[…]

    1997, Philip Jenkins, Hoods and shirts: the extreme right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950, page 73

Origin

Blend of Klan + cavalier.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

larvalike
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APA

klavalier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/klavalier

MLA

“klavalier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/klavalier. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “klavalier,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/klavalier.

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