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
Turtle At Barcelona, one Sebastian Anaro Anzarez, "a former picador," entered a hotel, ordered cold-turtle soup.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the jeep pulled back, he saw a picador with a sharper lance astride a well-padded horse nearby and whirled to charge the horse.
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
The picadores looked on aghast; the bull was roaming loose in the ring, perhaps the only indifferent spectator.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
The actors in the bull-fights are of four classes: matadores, banderilleros, picadores, and chulos, their relative importance being in the order named.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
The picadores extricated their fallen companion, and carried him out.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
The fight being ended, the picadores and the rest of the troop withdrew to the little chapel, to return thanks for their escape.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
At the end of the procession came two picadores, mounted on two sorry steeds, who looked only fit for the knacker, as indeed they were.
From On the Equator by Harry De Windt
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
Though she turned away when the picadors lanced the bulls, she watched each pass of the bulls with fascination.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reported by Maureen Dowd/New York and Steven Holmes/ Los Angeles It was a quiet Sunday as the picadors at all three networks prepared to implant their banderillas in the hides of their talk-show guests.
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
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