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banderillero

noun as in bullfighter

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He slips in telling statistics with the skill of a banderillero, using them always to secure a point and move his story forward.

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His older brother was with him as a banderillero, but he did not live in this hotel.

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As well as the matadors themselves, 16 of their assistants were injured - these include "picadors" on horseback, "banderilleros" on foot, and a sword page.

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At last our hideous greed was glutted, and the banderilleros took their turn in baiting the now enfeebled but undaunted bull.

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Austin could not tell her, for it was a thing he could never understand; but while the attendants were still flinging the black sombreros into the air another banderillero approached the bull.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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