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tourney en · NOUN

From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”).

A tournament.
- Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose. 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- By a knight of ghostes & shadowes, I sumon’d am to Tourney. ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
- We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 16:
- And let the recreant traitors seek My tourney court. 1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], →OCLC:

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From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”).

(archaic) To take part in a tournament.
- Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England […] 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XV, Practical — Devotional”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

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