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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

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

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2025

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

Eneasi Piuleini had 23 points and earned tourney MVP honors.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 23, 2024

"Live steel is too dangerous. I will permit you tourney swords, with blunted edges."

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

And there’s all-time chess great Magnus Carlsen, who netted $3.25 million for sponsorships during international chess tourneys like the FTX Crypto Cup.

From Slate Oct. 18, 2023

After missing two straight tourneys, Matta announced in June 2017 that he was stepping down, citing his health.

From Washington Times Apr. 3, 2022

How far they’ll climb remains to be seen, but they’re just one win away from reaching the Big Ten title game for the sixth time in 10 tourneys.

From Seattle Times Mar. 11, 2022

"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

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

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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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

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

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

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

Of a great tourneying in the Joyous Isle, and how Sir Pervivale and Sir Ector came thither, and Sir Percivale fought with him.

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

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 Richards, Frank

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

There were great jousts and tourneying at that time in Cornwall, and Sir Tristram was most praised of all the knights.

From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by Cutler, U. Waldo

When the Cid began to war upon the town, and sent parties against it twice and thrice a day, for the Cid was alway upon the alert, there was fighting and tourneying every day.

From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various




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