tournies
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
tournies
- 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[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[2], 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.