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  • noun Plural form of Templar.

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Examples

  • HANSEN: Many of you pointed out that the organization, Ordo Templi Orientis, or Order of the Oriental Templars, is not a satanic group, but is instead patterned on Freemasonry.

    Letters: Monastery Composer, Black Market Smokes 2010

  • One of the cool things about the upcoming fan film, Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Templars, is that not only does it look good (you can watch the first 12 minutes of the movie here), but it sounds good, too, in part because it has its own soundtrack composed by George Shaw.

    Indiana Jones Templars Fan Film Scores | Fan Cinema Today 2008

  • Or, in the words of James Parker, writing for The Boston Globe, The Da Vinci Code, bulging with shadowy Templars, is a classic con, of the sort regularly perpetrated by the hustler-sorcerer

    Professor of religious studies: "Thank you, Dan Brown..." 2006

  • The treatment Galileo the Insurection and the Templars is something they won’t learn.

    Think Progress » Archdiocese responds to controversy over its decision to kick children with lesbian parents out of school. 2010

  • It was a heavy abuse of power as the Templars were a religious order completely independent from royal authority.

    Tracking Down the Tale of the Knights Templar | Impact Lab 2007

  • No, I do not think the Templars had anything to do with the origins of chess - the game goes back far before the Templars were a gleam in St. Bernard's eye, who saw to it that the Order was officially endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Troyes in 1129 and no, St. Bernard is not a dog.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

  • The Templars was a powerful secretive group of warrior monks founded by French knight Hugues de Payens after the First Crusade of 1099 to protect pilgrims en route to Jerusalem.

    Knights Templar Launch Legal Battle Against Pope Jan 2008

  • The celebrated Master of the Templars was a tall, thin, war-worn man, with a slow yet penetrating eye, and a brow on which a thousand dark intrigues had stamped a portion of their obscurity.

    The Talisman 2008

  • The Templars was a powerful secretive group of warrior monks founded by French knight Hugues de Payens after the First Crusade of 1099 to protect pilgrims en route to Jerusalem.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008

  • The Templars were a military order of Christian knights founded in 1119 to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

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