Order of the Garter Star

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The star of the Order of the Garter. “Order of the Garter, the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, consisting of the sovereign, the Prince of Wales, and twenty-four knights companions, and open, in addition, to such English princes and foreign sovereigns as may be chosen, and sometimes to extra companions chosen for special reasons, so that the whole order usually numbers about fifty.” -Whitney, 1911

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English, England, St. George, star, chivalry, knights, medieval, knighthood, prince of wales, order of the garter, the most noble order of the garter

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Source

William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)

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