banderilla
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For the banderilla: In a medium bowl, combine mojo picón and Manchego cheese, stirring to coat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2018
In one of Goya's bull-fighting sketches, we may see a Moor, with a cloak on the left arm, and a dart in the right hand, practising the suerte de banderilla.
From The Story of Seville by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
The jaunty insouciance of the young range-rider irritated him as a banderilla goads a bull in the ring.
From Steve Yeager by William MacLeod Raine
A prettier conceit is that of confining small birds in paper cages, which come apart when the banderilla is planted, and set the little fluttering captives free.
From Castilian Days by John Hay
And the smile was as a banderilla to her niece's goaded spirit.
From New Faces by Charles F. Neagle
Or, banderillas can be made up to two days ahead and kept covered in the refrigerator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2018
Using thin skewers or long toothpicks, assemble 16 banderillas, threading 1 cheese cube, 1 quail egg, 1 cornichon, 1 pickled onion, and 1 piquillo strip on each.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2018
As far as Kantner’s volatile sensibilities were concerned, blue uniforms were like a flaring red cape to a thrice-gored bull still smarting from the banderillas.
From Time ● Jun. 12, 2015
Lithe and lightfoot under the bright summer sun, the matador waited impatiently while the banderillas were planted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Always he had faced the enemy; and now he rushed to play with his horns for the glittering banderillas which waited for his shoulders.
From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both
