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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

Kang Ae-sim and Yang Dong-geun portray an elderly woman and her failson who enter the tourney to erase his mountainous debt.

From Salon Dec. 26, 2024

Coming into Saturday’s tourney game against Holy Cross, Clark, a fourth-year senior at Iowa, was averaging 5.2 makes and 13.8 attempts from deep.

From Seattle Times Mar. 23, 2024

“I see myself getting selected as Pac-12 tourney MVP.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 22, 2024

"M'lord, there's nothing, it's the tourney, there's no help for it, oh . . ." Tyrion Lannister pulled a coin from his purse and flicked it up over his head, caught it, tossed it again.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

"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

The report released in August was sparked by outrage at the disparities between amenities at the two tourneys, including weight rooms and other features.

From Seattle Times Sep. 30, 2021

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

He was a solitary man who seldom left his own lands, but for wars and tourneys.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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 Lucy Aikin

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 George Henry Needler

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 Henry Adams

Three days they tourneyed, but none could withstand Sir Guy's strong arm.

From Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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 Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

How Sir Uwaine rode with the damosel of sixty year of age, and how he gat the prize at tourneying.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory

The Lord James Douglas, second son of the Gross One, had won the single tourneying by unhorsing all his opponents without even breaking a lance.

From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards

How Sir Tristram and his fellowship jousted, and of the noble feats that they did in that tourneying.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory

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 Edward Tompkins McLaughlin

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 D. Laing Purves




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