Freemasons

Cultural  

1. A men's fraternal organization with some religious aspects. Freemasons claim descent from the builders of the Temple in Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem).

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Example Sentences

A legal challenge against the Met Police over its decision to force staff to declare whether they are or have been Freemasons has been thrown out by a High Court judge.

From BBC

More than 300 Metropolitan Police officers and staff have declared their involvement in the Freemasons or other "hierarchical associations" after the force required them to do so last month, a High Court judge has said.

From BBC

The newspaper said nine thousand Freemasons were marching, and thirty thousand people lined the street to welcome Cleopatra’s Needle to New York.

From Literature

Pike was a longtime leader of the Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society, who paid for the statue.

From BBC

Officers in the Metropolitan Police could soon be made to tell bosses if they are part of the Freemasons.

From BBC