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Example sentences for: clans

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Johnston we learn that fraochdearg was the badge of clan MacDougal; fraoch-geal (white heather) the badge of the MacDonnells; and fraoch gorm the badge worn by clans MacDonald, MacNab, MacIntyre, and MacAlister, which practice could have been rather confusing during periods of clan warfare.
In the meantime, the mainland area was being settled by incomers, the “Five Great Clans”: Tang, Hau, Pang, Liu, and Man.
The Rajput warrior clans fought each other for control in what is now Rajasthan, the Kathiawar peninsula, and as far east as Khajuraho.
By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
When people speak of such pan-ethnic continental clans, they are merely regurgitating American definitions of race.