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Example sentences for: clans

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(The republic, as you probably know, contains three competing clans.)
When people speak of such pan-ethnic continental clans, they are merely regurgitating American definitions of race.
In the meantime, the mainland area was being settled by incomers, the “Five Great Clans”: Tang, Hau, Pang, Liu, and Man.
The Nor’westers commandeered the French system of forts, depots, and canoe brigades; they inter-married with native peoples and produced new clans of so-called Métis.
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.