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nightrider
[ nahyt-rahy-der ]
noun
- one of a band of mounted men, especially in the southern U.S. during Reconstruction, who committed nocturnal acts of violence and intimidation against Black people and Black sympathizers.
nightrider
/ ˈnaɪtˌraɪdə /
noun
- a member of a band of mounted and usually masked White people in the southern US who carried out acts of revenge and intimidation at night after the Civil War
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Derived Forms
- ˈnightˌriding, noun
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Other Words From
- nightriding noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nightrider1
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Example Sentences
Miss Lucy, she is awful favourable to all this nightrider business.
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The pirate and the nightrider are nothing to the fox, for romance and danger.
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