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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Belgium on the Scheldt River. Dating to pre-Roman times, it was a prosperous textile-manufacturing town from the 15th century to the 17th century.
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This tapestry was woven in Tournai, the source of Montefeltro's tapestries, for the Toledo Cathedral (see Circa 1492, fig. 111).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Another contemporary tapestry, produced in Tournai for the cathedral of Toledo, Spain, refers to Virgil's wisdom regarding astrology.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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This part of the country bordering the fifty mile stretch of coast line on the North Sea was given over latterly to the populous bathing establishments and their new communities, but the other localities, such as Tournai, Courtrai, Oudenaarde or Alost, were seldom visited by strangers, whose advent created almost as much excitement as it would in Timbuctoo.
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders George Wharton Edwards 1904
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Guy Harpigny, the bishop of Tournai, said that, at a time when the church is reaching out to abuse victims, along comes a former bishop who says it was only little games.
Roger Vangheluwe, Child-Abusing Former Belgian Bishop, Reveals All In Shocking Interview 2011
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An hour's train ride away, Potato Europe 2011 took place this month in fields outside the medieval city of Tournai.
In Belgium, Potato Fans Fret Over Fate of Frites Frances Robinson 2011
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A royal act from France in 1188 stipulated that Tournai had to provide 300 heavy infantry predites bene armatos when summoned by Philip II, a substantial number from one source, and one of many cases to rebut the view that medieval foot-soldiers only became a significant and effective force in the fourteenth century.
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Myths of Medieval Warfare 2010
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Virgil and his Aeneid, a mnemonic primer, provided imagery for the studioli intarsie, and tapestries woven for Federico by Jean Grenier of Tournai, which were produced in the 1470s.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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L'étoile mystérieuse / Tournai : Casterman, c1974.
Archive 2009-03-01 David S. Carter 2009
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When he took Tournai on the Continent, she was Regent in England at the time Thomas Howard led the army that defeated the Scots at Flodden Field, resulting in the death of Henry's brother-in-law James IV.
Judith Richards' Biography of Mary Tudor elena maria vidal 2009
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St Eligius is particularly honored in Flanders, in the province of Antwerp, and at Tournai, Kortrijk, Ghent, Bruges, and Douai.
AS SEEN ON TV: SAINT ELIGIUS Toby O'B 2009
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