banderillero

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

When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes.

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

Often from a cage, or from a netting hidden in the ornaments of a banderillero, came out birds, which joyously took up their flight.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

At last one gay-coloured stick—“half a pair”—hung from Vivillo's shoulders; twice and three times the attempt was made before the “pair” was complete; and the second banderillero succeeded no better.

From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both

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

They carried pikes with iron points; while the banderilleros, on foot, with hair long and knotted like a woman’s, hung their bright cloaks over an arm and bore the darts gay with paper rosettes.

From The Bright Shawl by Joseph Hergesheimer

The picadors leave the ring and the banderilleros take their darts, about three feet long, gay with decorations of coloured paper.

From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham