tourney

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Noun

tourney (plural tourneys)

1. Tournament.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o' Bedlam” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
     I sumon’d am to Tourney.
     ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end
     mee thinke it is noe iourney.

   • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     And let the recreant traitors seek

     My tourney court.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint

     We hold a tourney here tomorrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.

Verb

tourney (tourneys, present participle tourneying; past and past participle tourneyed)

1. (archaic) To take part in a tournament.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional

     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 […]

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