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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

Birmingham-Southern, which lost the national title game in 2019, advanced in the double-elimination tourney and will play the loser between Salve Regina and Wisconsin-Whitewater on Sunday.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

“As a girl, though... she was once smitten with a young knight from the stormlands who wore her favor at a tourney and named her queen of love and beauty. A brief thing.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" 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

"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

Notre Dame missed eight consecutive tourneys before returning in 2015, then posted four straight non-winning records before Jarrett was hired.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2021

It was as a tourney champion that I had won her hand and heart, so I entered other tourneys for her sake, but the magic was gone.

From "A Clash of Kings" 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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 Edward Tompkins McLaughlin


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