toreador
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Zambello has cast him as the toreador Escamillo in WNO’s production of Bizet’s “Carmen” set for this spring.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Came a jet-beaded toreador bolero atop a leather milkmaid corset and motocross pants.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
Reveries were interrupted when the defending champion, Bob Goalby, held out a green jacket like a toreador extending a cape.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 1, 2019
Nearby, a photograph casts Mntambo as a toreador — a classic Pablo Picasso role enacting grandiose masculinity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2016
Beautiful men in toreador outfits joined their ladies.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
On view were hastily brushed, large canvases of musketeers, toreadors, atelier scenes and cavorting couples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
His grandfather was an amateur bullfighter, and the local toreadors used to come by the house to get ready for corridas.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2018
Instead, the toreadors are waving variously coloured silk scarves and prancing around as if the ground is too hot to stand on.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2013
Frank Bowman pitching: a game against Yale, 3-1, preceded by parades of Princeton alumni dressed as soldiers, sailors, legionaries, firemen, cowboys, policemen, toreadors, big game hunters.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ground is an olive green, the toreadors cloth is a light pink.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
