Noun

A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.

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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter

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Noun

(en noun)

tournament

*1793,

And let the recreant traitors seek

My tourney court.

(Francis Bacon)

* Tennyson

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

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, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter XIV , passage=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.}}