tournies

English

Noun

tournies

  1. plural of tourney (alternative form of tourneys).
    • 1878, Westminster Chess Club Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess Whist Games of Skill and the Drama, Volume 1‎, page 179:
      The St. George's Club is to be congratulated upon the revived energy of its proceedings, because the matches and tournies of such an important society of Chess-players cannot fail to exercise a beneficial influence upon the progress of the game in England.
    • 1904, Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres‎, published 1986, page 281:
      For, to Hell go the fine scholars and fair knights who die in tournies and in glorious wars; and the good men-at-arms and the well-born.

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