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English
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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