A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
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- From Middle English, borrowed from Old French jouster, from Vulgar Latin *juxtō, *iuxtō, *iuxtāre, from Latin iūxta. English since the early 14th century.
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