tiltyard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tiltyard
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Regular participants fondly talk about years gone by with Buddhist monks and alphorns in the tiltyard.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2016
She had gone out into the tiltyard and had tilted with him, and he had been the victor.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
And in spite of his fetters and his perilous plight, Guy looked as blithe and gay as he was wont to do in the tiltyard of the castle of Wark.
From The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by John G. (John George) Edgar
Guy, advancing as gaily as if he had been in the tiltyard at Wark, gallantly unhorsed one Saracen with the point of his lance.
From The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by John G. (John George) Edgar
It is not only that I loved your father, Squire Loring, but it is that I have seen you, half armed as you were, ride against the best of them at the Castle tiltyard.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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