kleft means A type of brigand operating in the mountains of pre-Revolutionary Greece. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
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- A type of brigand operating in the mountains of pre-Revolutionary Greece.“True, the klefts often mulcted the villages, but at least they were Greeks, and they reduced considerably the marauding activities of the Albanians who in the second half of the eighteenth century were expanding westwards.”