banderillero
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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
When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes.
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
Often from a cage, or from a netting hidden in the ornaments of a banderillero, came out birds, which joyously took up their flight.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
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
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
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 C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
The second act is the play of the banderilleros, the flag-men.
From Castilian Days by John Hay
