tourney

From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”)

tourney (plural tourneys)

1. Tournament.
   • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     And let the recreant traitors seek

     My tourney court.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

   • Tennyson

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

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIV:

     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.

tourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed)

1. (archaic) To take part in a tournament.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional

     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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