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
It takes years to make a good banderillero.
From The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various
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.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
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
The banderilleros were three in number, and smart, dapper, little fellows, beautifully dressed in light blue satin and gold.
From On the Equator by Harry De Windt
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
