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Knight Templar

–noun, plural Knights Templars, Knights Templar.
Templar.

Tem⋅plar

[tem-pler]
–noun
1. a member of a religious military order founded by Crusaders in Jerusalem about 1118, and suppressed in 1312.
2. a barrister or other person occupying chambers in the Temple, London.
3. a member of the Masonic order, Knights Templars.
Also called Knight Templar.


Origin:
1250–1300; < ML templārius (see temple 1 , -ar 2 ); r. ME templer < AF (see -er 2 )
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Knight Templar  
n.   pl. Knights Templars or Knights Templar
  1. A member of an order of knights founded about 1118 to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land during the Second Crusade and suppressed in 1312.

  2. A man belonging to a Masonic order in the United States.

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Word Origin & History

Templar 
c.1290, from Anglo-Fr. templer, O.Fr. templier (c.1200), from M.L. templaris (1157), member of the medieval religious/military order known as Knights Templars (c.1118-1312), so called because they had headquarters in a building near Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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