Klan
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Ellipsis of Ku Klux Klan.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
the Klan
- Ku Klux Klan
- 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 745:
- The soldiers made arrests right and left, swearing to wipe out the Klan if they had to put every white man in Atlanta in jail.
- 2005, “We Major”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Really Doe and Nas:
- I ain't in the Klan, but I brought my hood with me
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German
Pronunciation
Noun
Klan m (strong, genitive Klans, plural Klans)
- Alternative spelling of Clan
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- en:Ku Klux Klan
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- de:Ku Klux Klan