banderillero
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When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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Austin could not tell her, for it was a thing he could never understand; but while the attendants were still flinging the black sombreros into the air another banderillero approached the bull.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
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
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
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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
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Reporters played about Jim Dyckman that night as if they were banderilleros and he a raging bull.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
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