banderillero
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When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
He was picador, matador, banderillero by turns in the bull ring.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
When the banderillero is awkward, they rain on him with potatoes.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
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
Reporters played about Jim Dyckman that night as if they were banderilleros and he a raging bull.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
These refuges were little used, however, except by the underlings, the capadores, or by capsized picadores; espadas and banderilleros disdained them.
From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson
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