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Definition of Jousts
1. joust [v] - See also: joust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jousts
Literary usage of Jousts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"CHAPTER XXI Of great jousts done all a Christmas, and of a great jousts and ...
THUS it passed on till Christmas, and then every day there was jousts made ..."
2. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"jousts (French joule) differed from tournaments in being single combats between
two knights, while tournaments were performed between two parties of ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"jousts (French joute) differed from tournaments in being single combats between
two knights, while tournaments were performed between two panics of ..."
4. The History of Chivalry Or Knighthood and Its Times. by Charles Mills (1825)
"gundy The Romance of jousts The Passage of Arms Use of Tournaments and jousts.
ALL our most delightful imaginings of chivalry CHAP. are associated with the ..."
5. Beatrice D'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497: A Study of the Renaissance by Mrs. Julia Mary Cartwright Ady (1903)
"... het secretary—Serafino d'Aquila—Rivalry of Lombard and Tuscan poets— Gaspare
Visconti's works—Poetic jousts with Bramante—Niccolo di Correggio and other ..."
6. Beatrice D'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497: A Study of the Renaissance by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady (1920)
"... her secretary—Serafino d'Aquila—Rivalry of Lombard and Tuscan poets— Gaspare
Visconti's works—Poetic jousts with ..."
7. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"The feats of chivalry displayed in jousts and tournaments were in former times
as much esteemed as warlike exploit». S--P also ACT. DEEM. See THINK. ..."
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