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tournament

tour·na·ment

Today it means: During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war. Full definition →

Old French tornoiement

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Old French · derived fromtornoiement
English todaytournament

From Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.