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
The jaunty insouciance of the young range-rider irritated him as a banderilla goads a bull in the ring.
From Steve Yeager by Raine, William MacLeod
One of them steps to within speaking distance of the animal, and holding a banderilla in each hand lifted above his head, stamps his foot and shouts insulting words.
From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Her sputtering, quickly stifled screech of laughter sent Sissy spinning about as a bull does when the banderilla is planted in his quivering flesh.
From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson
And the smile was as a banderilla to her niece's goaded spirit.
From New Faces by Neagle, Charles F.
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
Or, banderillas can be made up to two days ahead and kept covered in the refrigerator.
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 Both, Armand
