Forms: α. 4 torneie, -aie, 5 -eye, -oye, 5–6 -ey, -oy, 6 -ay. β. 4–7 turnay, 4–8 -ey, -y, 6 -ei(e, -oye, -oi. γ. 4 tourneie, 4–9 -ay, 5 -eye, -oy, 6 -ai, 6–7 -oi, 4– tourney. [ME. a. OF. tornei (Enéas, c. 1150), turnei, tornai, tournay, F. tournoi, vbl. sb. f. tornei-er, TOURNEY v. So Prov. tornei, It., Sp., Pg. torneo.]
1. = TOURNAMENT 1.
α. c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, IV. 1641 (1669). In werre or torney [v.r. tournay] Marcial.
c. 1440. Lovelich, Merlin, 9614. There departed the Torneye anon.
c. 1483. Caxton, Dialogues, 45/27. Reyner the squyer Is atte Justes At the tornoye.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, xxi. 62. I … hauntyd the iustes & tornoys.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Edw. IV., 197 b. These ij valeant persones coped together in the tornay.
1579. Fenton, Guicciard., III. (1599), 107. The King … amused the time about iustes, torneys, and other pleasures of Court.
β. 13[?]. K. Alis., 141. Ladies loven solas, and play: Swaynes, justes; knyghtis, turnay [Bodl. MS. tournay].
1516. St. Bridget, in Myrr. our Ladye, p. lv. In turneys and in vanytes of the worlde.
1550. J. Coke, Eng. & Fr. Heralds, § 125 (1877), 95. Assaultes, turnois, scremuses and syeges.
1556. Chron. Gr. Friars, 27. The kynge helde ryall justes, turnayes, & bankettes six dayes after.
1558. in Feuillerat, Revels. Q Eliz. (1908), 70. The apparell & Trappers … appointed … for his Justes & Turneis.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., IV. xxvii. 146. All sortes of turnoyes and cumbates.
1632. Milton, Penseroso, 118. Great Bards … have sung, Of Turneys and of Trophies hung.
1742. Collins, Ode Poet. Char., 7. The magic Girdle … At solemn Turney hung on high.
γ. 13[?]. Seuyn Sag., 719. In a mede was this tourney Of men that were of gret noblai.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. xix. 27. There was also great iustes, tourneys, daunsyng, carolyng, and great feastis euery day.
1552. Huloet, Tournay, vide in turnay.
1556. Aurelio & Isab. (1608), E iv. She can not keape hir from the danses, jostes, tournois.
1569. Stocker, trans. Diod. Sic., III. xviii. 134. For the sportes, tournais, and diuerse other pastimes.
1625. Bacon, Ess., Masques & Triumphs (Arb.), 540. For Iusts, and Tourneys.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., I. 193. The suit of armour … embellished as if to figure in the tournay.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1877), II. viii. 265. Not justing with his lance as in a mimic tourney.
fig. 1878. E. Jenkins, Haverholme, 33. A few days’ trial, a tournay of keen lawyers … and the poor man walked out of court beat.
† b. Applied to ancient games; = TOURNAMENT 1 c. Obs.
1485. Caxton, Trevisa’s Higden, II. xxxii. (1527), 87 b. There the Iliens haue theyr tornamentes from iiij yere to iiij yere, so that iiij yere was bytwene the tornoyes.
1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., I. (1594), 103. Cæsar the first Romane emperor … not sparing any cost upon plaies, turneies, festes, largesses, and other baits to curry favour.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXIX. xxii. 726. The land souldiours, running and charging one another at turney. Ibid. (1601), Pliny, VIII. ii. I. 192. In the late solemnitie of tournois & sword-fight at the sharpe, which Germanicus Cæsar exhibited to gratifie the people.
2. attrib. and Comb., as tourney-day, -fall, -field, -fight, -prize; † tourney-head, ? a blunt spear-head used in a tournament; tourney-helm, a helmet worn in tournaments, with light open bars across the face; distinguished from a tilting-helm; tourney-queen, the ‘queen of beauty’ at a tournament.
1813. Scott, Trierm., III. xxxvii. Forgot was that fell *tourney-day.
1886. J. Richmond, Pref. Notice to Chatterton’s Poet. Wks., 25. The gay crowd of the *tourney-field.
1872. Tennyson, Gareth & Lynette, 88. In those brain-stunning shocks and *tourney-falls.
1814. Scott, Ld. of Isles, IV. xxv. Victor in Woodstock’s *tourney-fight.
1506–7. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., III. 364. Tua tournay suordis, four *tournay hedis to the tournay.
1872. Tennyson, Last Tourn., 32. Take thou the jewels of this dead innocence, And make them … a *tourney-prize.
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., IV. iii. 97. Now ruffling up like any *tourney queen.
