Knights Templars
Americannoun
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a Masonic order in the U.S. claiming descent from the medieval order of Templars.
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a plural of Knight Templar.
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The exhibition uses the 1539 theft of a jewel-encrusted golden falcon fashioned by the Knights Templars of Malta for Charles V of Spain as an inventive springboard.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2014
Osorio Chong said on Wednesday the government had three leaders of the Knights Templars in its sights.
From Reuters • Jan. 16, 2014
They gather in the 1930s at Avignon, home of the medieval and mysterious Knights Templars.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The four chief classes of degrees: "Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch," " Mark Grand Lodge," "Great Priory of Knights Templars," "Ancient and Accepted Rite."
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is a subject of congratulation to us that we possess, in the Temple Church at London, the most beautiful and perfect memorial of the order of the Knights Templars now in existence.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.
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