The word 'duel' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a fight or contest between two people or groups, such as a battle of wits or a fencing match. For example, "The two kings settled their dispute in a duel to the death."
He pointed to newspaper reports that Obeid was a duel Australian-Lebanese citizen and that his Hunters Hill mansion was on the market.
The manager was so impressed by the 19-year-old that he bought him for £300,000 and, two days after the right-back's arrival, put him straight into the starting line-up for a duel with Manchester United.
There is a duel, in which the knight is beheaded by Arthur's nephew, Sir Gawain; he then picks his head up, holds it aloft and promises that the two of them shall meet again.
Eight matches in 11 days on a previously unfavoured surface, a three-set duel that finished so late it prompted promises of an official review of scheduling on the ATP tour, and, to top it all, a virtually flawless performance against the best clay-court player in history.
Thirty-two yeafterfter Yannick Noah's triumph, the Swiss held his nerve to deny Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a gruelling duel fought out in sweltering conditions and his 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 victory puts him into the French Open final for the first time.
My colleague Michael Safi, who is also a duel Melbourne/Sydney citizen, says of Tiger: "Even its Melbourne terminal evokes the airline's cheap as chips ethos, providing the bare minimum required of a building, which is to say, shelter.
They are ready to duel to the death over how long a bag should be left in a mug, or whether a bag should even see a mug in the first place, whether a bag should be locked in the prison of a teapot and squeezed of its blood through a spout.
Three of the big six have announced duel fuel price rises in recent weeks – 8.2% by SSE, 9.2% by British Gas, and 10.4% by npower.
Parma and Juventus, now with one Baggio on either side, embarked on a duel for domestic and European supremacy.
He didn't even want a duel of words.
There they will duel with Middlesbrough for the right to return to the Premier League.
