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Tournament or Tournay

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A tilt of knights; the chief art of the game being so to manœuvre or turn your horse as to avoid the adversary’s blow. (French, tournoiement, verb, tournoyer.)

Tournament of the Drum. A comic romance in verse by Sir David Lindsay; a ludicrous mock tournament.

Tournament of Tottenham. A comic romance, printed in Percy’s Reliques. A number of clowns are introduced, practising warlike games, and making vows like knights of high degree. They ride tilt on cart-horses, fight with plough-shares and flails, and wear for armour wooden bowls and saucepan-lids. It may be termed the “high life below stairs” of chivalry.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Touch At (To)
Touch Bottom (To)
Touch Up (To)
Touch and Go (A)
Touchet
Touchstones
Touchy
Tour
Tour de Force
Tourlourou
Tournament or Tournay
Tournemine
Tours
Tout (pronounce towt)
Tout Ensemble (French)
Tout est Perdu Hormis LHonneur
Tout le Monde
Tower of Hunger
Tower of London
Towers of Silence
Town (A)