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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

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

"This tourney is an extravagance the realm cannot afford."

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

Open, college football tourneys, NFL openers, political town halls, and awards shows, then it really has nothing left to keep buyers around.

From Slate Sep. 7, 2024

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

From Washington Times Apr. 3, 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

Arkansas beat South Carolina in 2019 with the Gamecocks undefeated since then, winning the 2020 and 2021 tourneys.

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 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

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

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

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

Thus they tourneyed together, one with an axe and the other with a sword, a long season, and no man to let them.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

The latter part of this prolix autobiography is occupied by a detailed account of a long tourneying trip, which he contrived as a parallel to his Venus-journey, this time under the disguise of King Arthur.

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

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

Then was there great jousts and great tourneying, and many lords and ladies were at that feast, and Sir Tristram was most praised of all other.

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

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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