klavalier

English

Etymology

Blend of Klan +‎ cavalier

Noun

klavalier (plural klavaliers)

1. A member of the Ku Klux Klan's "secret police" or flogging squads.
   • 1997, Philip Jenkins, Hoods and shirts: the extreme right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950, page 73:

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