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
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
The poem The Heretic’s Tragedy deals with the suppression of the order of the Knights Templars.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
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