banderillero
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When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He began his career as a banderillero, became one of the best in the business, and then made the unusual transition to matador.
From Time Magazine Archive
His older brother was with him as a banderillero, but he did not live in this hotel.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
That banderillero," said Jacinta, sweetly, "should have been driven out of the ring.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
"You mean the Easter Sunday performance," he asked, "when that negligent banderillero was gored?"
From The Lighted Match by R. F. Schabelitz
He leads his crew not of banderilleros and picadors, but of drink crafters and cooks through flawless passes to a demanding mob, his “domination of the bull.”
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
Later, while dismounted picadors are getting over the fence, the capaderos engage the bull's attention until the coming of the banderilleros.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back of them were their people, and behind the banderilleros, back in the passageway and in the open space of the corral, I saw the picadors.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
He was accustomed to lord it over these men, and the jeers goaded him like banderilleros goad a bull.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
Meanwhile the matadors and the banderilleros shook their coloured scarfs at him—the picadors poked at him with their lances.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
