picador
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He meant he wanted to be a picador with the house’s heritage rather than just aiming for the heart of the nouveau riche.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2011
As the jeep pulled back, he saw a picador with a sharper lance astride a well-padded horse nearby and whirled to charge the horse.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury."
From Time Magazine Archive
Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than three or four charges at the picador.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out on the plateau beyond the town employees of the bull-ring exercised picador horses, galloping them stiff-legged on the hard, sun-baked fields behind the bull-ring.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Some of the picadores galloped out, but a few awaited the coming charge, their long pikes in rest.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
The picadores looked on aghast; the bull was roaming loose in the ring, perhaps the only indifferent spectator.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
There will be another bull and more picadores now.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
The banderilleros receive about fifty dollars, and the picadores something less than that for their share in the performance.
From The Story of Seville by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
The bull-fighters themselves are of four grades: the espada or matador, the picadores, chulos, and banderilleros.
From On the Equator by Harry De Windt
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
There are many matadors, picadors, minotaurs, bulls and horses in a new show exploring Picasso and the importance of bullfighting – but also a glimpse of his terrible treatment of women.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2017
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
Though she turned away when the picadors lanced the bulls, she watched each pass of the bulls with fascination.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind them came all the procession, opening out, all striding in step, all the capes furled, everybody with free arms swinging, and behind rode the picadors, their pics rising like lances.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
