banderilla
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It also says that bullfights should be adjusted immediately so that the animals aren’t killed in arenas or attacked with pikes and handheld harpoons called banderillas.
From Seattle Times
Using thin skewers or long toothpicks, assemble 16 banderillas, threading 1 cheese cube, 1 quail egg, 1 cornichon, 1 pickled onion, and 1 piquillo strip on each.
The animals are not weakened by banderillas – darts which stab the bull in the neck and shoulders before the kill.
From The Guardian
As far as Kantner’s volatile sensibilities were concerned, blue uniforms were like a flaring red cape to a thrice-gored bull still smarting from the banderillas.
From Time
In celebration, the story goes, the quintessentially Peruvian condor was set like a living banderilla to torment the imperial bull.
From New York Times
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