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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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Noun	1.	Knight Templar - a man who belongs to a Masonic order in the United States Freemason, Mason - a member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love
	2.	Knight Templar - a knight of a religious military order established in 1118 to protect pilgrims and the Holy Sepulcher Templar knight - originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

Some of the stories have child or teenage protagonists (the adolescent duelist in Ellen Kushner's "Charis," the daughter of a vampire in Jane Yolen's "Mama Gone"); others have themes of alienation or belonging, many of them reflecting magic in the modern world (the folk musicians in Emma Bull's "A Bird That Whistles," the hip young Knight Templar in Debra Doyle and James D.

Hayden, Patrick Nielsen, ed. New Magics: An Anthology of Today's ... by Root, Deirdre / Kliatt

Readers will learn of the relationship of John the Baptist and the Mandean from Sri Lanka; the mystery of Baphomet (the Templar "Demon"); the gnostic and sexual tantric rites practiced by the Knights Templar; the alchemy and mystery of the Black Madonna; secrets of the Rosslyn Chapel and the Sinclairs of Scotland; the mysteries of the Freemasons and Johannites; and the Knight Templars of today.

Guardians of the Holy Grail by Carson, Michael J. / Reviewer's Bookwatch

Schuchard reaches further back in history than Stevenson to find roots of Scottish Masonry in the guilds of Jewish temple builders, the influence of the Knight Templars returning from the crusades, the Scots Guard that protected the French king, the memory theater of Raymond Lull, and the architectural interests of early Scottish rulers.

Restoring the Temple of Vision: Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart ... by Traister, Barbara / Renaissance Quarterly

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