tourney
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɝni/, /ˈtʊɚni/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtʊə(ɹ)ni/, /ˈtɔː(ɹ)ni/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni, -ʊə(ɹ)ni, -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Noun
[edit]tourney (plural tourneys or tournies)
- A tournament.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” 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.
- By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
- 1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], →OCLC:
- And let the recreant traitors seek
My tourney court.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 16:
- We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
And there is scantly time for half the work.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
Verb
[edit]tourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed)
- (archaic) To take part in a tournament.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XV, Practical — Devotional”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
- 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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