banderillero
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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
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When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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A banderillero now advances with a pair of the banderillas, or barbed darts, before mentioned.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
Ferrero, who was rated the best banderillero in Peru, first faced the bull.
From Wide Courses by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
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
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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
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Then the jaunty banderilleros, the streamers of whose darts must correspond in color with their costumes, supply a picturesque and amusing element, a comic interlude.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
The picadors had had their turn, the banderilleros were ready to appear, but the people were thoroughly enjoying themselves now and they stamped and roared "Caballos" till they were hoarse.
From Five Nights by Victoria Cross