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Definition of Tiltyards
1. tiltyard [n] - See also: tiltyard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiltyards
Literary usage of Tiltyards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of by James Robinson Planché (1876)
"That for the tiltyards will be treated under its separate headings, as no
distinction seems to have been made in the form of the various pieces worn in war ..."
2. History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction by Richard Watson Dixon (1885)
"In youth the most graceful lance in the tiltyards of Greenwich and Windsor, the
bravest soldier of the later wars of Henry, the mainstay of the Revolution ..."
3. Gentlemen Errant: Being the Journeys and Adventures of Four Noblemen in by Nina Cust (1909)
"... ruffling and lording it in all the lists and tiltyards, shining before his
fellow-men in ' costly armour, in silken cloaks and appurtenances, ..."
4. Memorials of Dixie-land: Orations, Essays, Sketches, and Poems on Topics by Lucian Lamar Knight (1919)
"It was beauty's hand that buckled on the belt; and 800 years before his birth he
was trained by his ancestors in the tiltyards of the tournament. ..."
5. Conversations on England as it was and is: Designed for Schools and Home Tuition by Mrs Kemp (1858)
"... part in the education of gentlemen, who regularly practised all kinds of
warlike exercises and athletic games in the tiltyards of ^heir castles. ..."
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