tourney

turnaus

turnata tournament Tournament.
1793, w:Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Samuel Taylor Coleridge, s:Christabel Christabel

And let the recreant traitors seek

My tourney court.

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

Here indeed, perhaps, by rule of antagonisms, may be the place to mention that, after :w:Richard Cœur de Lion|King Richard’s return, there was a liberty of tourneying given to the fighting men of England …