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Alcanʹtara (Order of)

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A military and religious order instituted in 1214 by Alfonso IX., King of Castile, to commemorate the taking of Alcantara from the Moors. The sovereign of Spain is, ex-officio, head of the Order. A resuscitation of the order of St. Julian of the Pear-tree, instituted by Fernando Gomez in 1176, better known by the French title St. Julien du Poirier. The badge of the order was a pear-tree.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Albino
Albino-poets
Albion
Albion
Albion the Giant
Albracca’s Damsel (in Orlando Furioso)
Album
Alcade
Alcaic Verse
Alcantara (Order of)
Alcastus (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Alce
Alceste
Alchemilla
Alchemy (Al-ki-mĕ)
Alcimedon
Alcina
Alcinoo poma dare (to give apples to Alcinŏus)
Alcofribas
Alcuith

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Alcan`tara