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English
Etymology
knight + Templar (ultimately from Latin templum (“temple”), notably the Temple Mount in Jerusalem)
Noun
Knight Templar (plural Knight Templars or Knights Templar)
- (historical) A knightly member of the crusader age military order of Templars
1610, William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland, Britain, London: George Bishop, page 427:Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem consecrated a Church for Knights Templars [Latin original: Heraclius patriarcha Hierosolymitanus ecclesiam militibus Templariis consecravit]
- A member of a York rite masonic order
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