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
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
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
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
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 Stephens, John L.
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 Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
Some of the picadores galloped out, but a few awaited the coming charge, their long pikes in rest.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee
The picadores formed in front of him, each with a black or yellow poncha in his left hand, and poising his spear with the right.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by Stephens, John L.
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
