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
Captain Canedo, who is still alive, kills a! rejon —that is, he rides first as a picador, then dismounts and finishes his job as an espada.
From Time Magazine Archive
Turtle At Barcelona, one Sebastian Anaro Anzarez, "a former picador," entered a hotel, ordered cold-turtle soup.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shuttling between the two, La Punta bulls develop the sure-footed power that has enabled them at times to throw a picador and his horse five feet up and over the arena's barrier.
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
There will be another bull and more picadores now.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
The picadores then mounted their horses; but, after a few thrusts of the spear, the bull flinched, and the spectators, indignant that he did not show more fight, cried out, "Saca esa vaca!"
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
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
His horse had bolted in another direction from mine, and we heard afterwards that the picadores had galloped in between me and the sporting bull and turned him back.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson
"Qué picadores diablos!" they screeched to one another across the narrow ways.
From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
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
The bullring sequences get along without picadors or coups de grace, and apparently the same old company bull is photographed again & again.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
