“knight of the”

The following 10 entries include the term knight of the.

Knight of the Maccabees

noun phrase

: a member of a secret benevolent society

knight of the carpet

noun

: a knight who is knighted in formal ceremony (as kneeling in a royal audience chamber) as distinguished from one knighted informally on the field of battle compare carpet knight

Knight of the Golden Circle

noun

: a member of a former American secret organization formed about 1855 to promote the interests of the South and the slavery cause

knight of the pestle

noun

knight of the post

noun

: a professional false witness of 15th to 17th century England

knight of the road

noun

Knight of the Round Table

noun

: a knight belonging to the legendary order instituted by King Arthur

knight of the shire

noun

: a knight selected by the freeholders to represent a shire in the House of Commons especially in medieval times

Knight of the Sword

noun

: a member of a German religious order of knights founded in 1202 by Bishop Albert of Riga in Livonia to convert the heathen Estonians and Livonians and appropriate their lands, confirmed by the pope in 1204, and merged into the Teutonic Order in 1237

Knight of the Temple

noun

: templar


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