toreador
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He’s an absolute magnet for the eyes onstage, his powerful voice perfectly suited to the showy toreador and his signature aria.
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2022
Zambello has cast him as the toreador Escamillo in WNO’s production of Bizet’s “Carmen” set for this spring.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Came a jet-beaded toreador bolero atop a leather milkmaid corset and motocross pants.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
Reveries were interrupted when the defending champion, Bob Goalby, held out a green jacket like a toreador extending a cape.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 1, 2019
Beautiful men in toreador outfits joined their ladies.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
On view were hastily brushed, large canvases of musketeers, toreadors, atelier scenes and cavorting couples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
His grandfather was an amateur bullfighter, and the local toreadors used to come by the house to get ready for corridas.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2018
Instead, the toreadors are waving variously coloured silk scarves and prancing around as if the ground is too hot to stand on.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2013
The old knight, played by Helpmann himself, tottered through a swirl of swinging Spanish skirts, roistering toreadors and intricate incidental dancing in the market square in search of Dulcinea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes he got a piece of them, but most of the time they just sidestepped him like toreadors or pushed him away as though he was a bothersome younger cousin.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
