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 Tournament or Tournay.Tours. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Tour’nemine (3 syl.).
 
That’s Tournemine. Your wish was father to the thought. Tournemine was a Jesuit of the eighteenth century, of a very sanguine and dreamy temperament.   1
 


 Tournament or Tournay.Tours. 

 
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