tourney
noun
a tournament.
Example Sentences
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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
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 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
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
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
