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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

"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

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

In 2019 the governing body said it lost $2.8 million and those losses have multiplied the last few years since with increased spending after disparities between the men’s and women’s tourneys were pointed out.

From Seattle Times Jan. 5, 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

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

The trumpets sounded joyously, and the heralds made proclamation, and the knights on noble battle horses, and according to their several ranks, tourneyed lustily.

From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan

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

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

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

Finally, the marriage was celebrated on January 24th, 1527, at St. Germain-en-Laye, where, as Sauvai records, "there were jousts, tourneying, and great triumph for the space of eight days or thereabouts."

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) by George Saintsbury

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

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 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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