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
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 was picador, matador, banderillero by turns in the bull ring.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
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, too, thus escape danger because they do their work while the bull's whole attention is on the red cloth operated by another man in front.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson
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
