klansman
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Klansman (much more common)
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
klansman (plural klansmen)
- A man who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan
- 1868, Robert Henry Newell, Smoked Glass, page 103:
- Klansmen — Behold the Deed without a name
- 1900, Albert Bushnell Hart, American History Told by Contemporaries, page 851:
- The fact that nobody foresaw that Chill would blossom into a klansman does not alter the fact that the klansman is one of the flowers of our democracy.
- 1868, Robert Henry Newell, Smoked Glass, page 103:
- (offensive, slang) A very offensive term for a white person unrelated to the KKK or racist ideology
