klavalier

noun

klavalier

noun

Etymology Blend of Klan + cavalier.

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:

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