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
Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than three or four charges at the picador.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unamuno places guilt as deftly as a picador against whose fearful horse's flank the blundering bull of social judgment charges.
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 three picadores also went to their posts, at equal distance from each other, near to the barrier.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
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
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
The picadores extricated their fallen companion, and carried him out.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
There will be another bull and more picadores now.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
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
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
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
