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
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 Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury."
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
Rather than stand the assaults of these little picadores, much longer, I believe my crew would have run the gantlet of the whole Federal Navy.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
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 bull-fighters themselves are of four grades: the espada or matador, the picadores, chulos, and banderilleros.
From On the Equator by Harry De Windt
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
They were followed by six picadores on horseback, dressed in leather jerkins and breeches, protected on the right side with bands of iron.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke
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
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
Though she turned away when the picadors lanced the bulls, she watched each pass of the bulls with fascination.
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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