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tourney

[toor-nee, tur-] / ˈtʊər ni, ˈtɜr- /


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Near the start, when Dunk reluctantly accepts Egg as his squire, he set the terms of their relationship in a dark field outside the town where the tourney that births their legend takes place.

From Salon Feb. 23, 2026

However, this tourney attracts lords and knights from great houses throughout Westeros, including a couple whose families figure prominently in “Game of Thrones.”

From Salon Jan. 17, 2026

Best of the West boys volleyball tourney Friday and Saturday at Poway.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2025

Hatem had decided to ride out March with the men, who entered the ACC tourney on a four-game skid and needing to win the whole thing to reach March Madness amid uncertainty about Keatts’ future.

From Seattle Times Apr. 2, 2024

We were driving to New Hampshire for the New England tournament that afternoon to stay overnight at a Holiday Inn near the tourney.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

"I believe in these guys. I really do," said Chris Beard, who led the Red Raiders in five Big 12 tourneys but will be there with Texas for the first time.

From Fox News Mar. 8, 2022

Even in tourneys where knights display unadulterated mounted skills by putting lances through rings and other challenges, there’s room for audience participation.

From Washington Post Jun. 24, 2021

Rout says she likes the DGT 3000 and DGT 2010 clock models, which are easy to configure and work pleasantly in any context—nothing too ornate like the clocks you see at pro speed chess tourneys.

From Slate Feb. 24, 2021

Still, most schools have pressed ahead, and the hope is to hold league tournaments just ahead of the NCAA’s popular March Madness tourneys that begin in mid-March.

From Seattle Times Feb. 5, 2021

Viserys had told her stories of the tourneys he had witnessed in the Seven Kingdoms, but Dany had never seen a joust herself.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

His rede the heroes followed / and tourneyed in full stately way.

From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by Needler, George Henry

And the devise of a castle of cloth of gold, set with pomegranates about the battlements, with shields of knights hanging therefrom; and six knights in rich harness tourneyed.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy

Glorious has the tourney been  Where for me has fought the Queen;  But a disgrace for me it were  If I tourneyed not for her.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

Then the general tourney began, and, in double file, and much increased in numbers, our company sallied forth, and, as it behoved them, tourneyed bravely.

From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Pisan, Christin? de

In the days of Henry VIII. a chronicler tells of a jouster who "tourneyed in harneyse all of gilt from the head piece to the sabattons."

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs

After four years of such instruction, his father's death called him home to inherit his property, and he spent the three years that followed by tourneying in the noviciate of knighthood.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

Another summer passed in tourneying, and during another winter he tried to amuse himself by making poetry for his lady.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

Indeed, as we have seen, he had the rudiments of the art in him before setting out from the tourneying field at Glenlochar on his way to holy orders.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

And if *so fall* the chiefetain be take *should happen* On either side, or elles slay his make*, *equal, match No longer then the tourneying shall last.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

Earl Douglas was in his gayest humour on this second day of the great tourneying.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank




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