Knight Templar

noun

plural Knights Templars or Knights Templar

1

: templar sense 1

2

: a member of an order of Freemasonry conferring three orders in the York rite

Examples of Knight Templar in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Me, the Saxon lord, the Jewish guy, the heart attack, and the Knight Templar. — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Apr. 2023

Von Vampton is unmasked as a Knight Templar of the Crusades, whose theft of occult secrets from the Holy Land echoes his exploitative Negrophilia. — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1577, in the meaning defined at sense 1