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banderillero

[ban-duh-ree-air-oh, -reel-yair-, bahn-de-ree-lye-raw, -ye-] / ˌbæn də riˈɛər oʊ, -rilˈjɛər-, ˌbɑn dɛ riˈljɛ rɔ, -ˈjɛ- /


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When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes.

From Time Magazine Archive

He began his career as a banderillero, became one of the best in the business, and then made the unusual transition to matador.

From Time Magazine Archive

His older brother was with him as a banderillero, but he did not live in this hotel.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

A banderillero now advances with a pair of the banderillas, or barbed darts, before mentioned.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

Ferrero, who was rated the best banderillero in Peru, first faced the bull.

From Wide Courses by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

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

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

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

Next the banderilleros tackled him, but such was his speed and ferocity that all three funked the work, and not one of them fastened his flag in the black shoulders.

From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson

In the ring, distributed here and there, were some half a dozen professional fighters on foot, called banderilleros and chulos, besides which there were two on horseback, known as picadors.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou


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