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Definition of Tourneyed
1. tourney [v] - See also: tourney
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tourneyed
Literary usage of Tourneyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. De controversia in curia militari inter Ricardum Le Scrope et Robertum by Sir Richard Le Scrope, Richard Scrope (1832)
"... of all their country, and always tourneyed in the arms Azure, a bend Or, and
had been a good esquire and good servant in arms, whilst an esquire, ..."
2. The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christine, Laurence Binyon, Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan (1908)
"file, and much increased in numbers, our company sallied forth, and, as it behoved
them, tourneyed bravely. The trumpets sounded joyously, and the heralds ..."
3. The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christine, Laurence Binyon, Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan (1908)
"file, and much increased in numbers, our company sallied forth, and, as it behoved
them, tourneyed bravely. The trumpets sounded joyously, and the heralds ..."
4. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams (1905)
"Glorious has the tourney been Where for me has fought the Queen; But a disgrace
for me it were If I tourneyed not for her. ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Thus they tourneyed together, one with an axe and the other with a sword, a long
season, and no man to let them. Finally sir James Lindsay gave the knight ..."
6. The Normans in European History by Charles Homer Haskins (1915)
"At one period in his life he tourneyed every fortnight. The tournaments of his
day, however, were not the elegant and fashionable affairs of the fourteenth ..."
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