bohort
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Noun[edit]
bohort (plural bohorts)
- An early type of jousting competition in medieval Europe.
- 2005, David Crouch, Tournament, page 113:
- Bohorts were the spontaneous amusements of the young. They were not in general formally arranged and organised; most bohorts just happened.
- 2010, anonymous author, translated by Cyril Edwards, The Nibelungenlied, Oxford, page 170:
- When the kings, and also their vassals, came to their horses, mighty Volker advised that they should hold a bohort [translating bûhurdieren] according to their land's custom.
- 2011, Ben Hubbard, Gladiators:
- Bohorts used either blunted weapons, mock weapons, or no weapons at all, and as such were safe enough to have the sanction of the Church.