banderilla

For the banderilla: In a medium bowl, combine mojo picón and Manchego cheese, stirring to coat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2018

Her sputtering, quickly stifled screech of laughter sent Sissy spinning about as a bull does when the banderilla is planted in his quivering flesh.

From The Madigans by Orson Lowell

One of them steps to within speaking distance of the animal, and holding a banderilla in each hand lifted above his head, stamps his foot and shouts insulting words.

From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The Judge will plant a banderilla here and there, you may be sure.

From The Spanish Jade by William Henry Hyde

And the smile was as a banderilla to her niece's goaded spirit.

From New Faces by Charles F. Neagle

Using thin skewers or long toothpicks, assemble 16 banderillas, threading 1 cheese cube, 1 quail egg, 1 cornichon, 1 pickled onion, and 1 piquillo strip on each.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2018

Or, banderillas can be made up to two days ahead and kept covered in the refrigerator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2018

As far as Kantner’s volatile sensibilities were concerned, blue uniforms were like a flaring red cape to a thrice-gored bull still smarting from the banderillas.

From Time ● Jun. 12, 2015

Reported by Maureen Dowd/New York and Steven Holmes/ Los Angeles It was a quiet Sunday as the picadors at all three networks prepared to implant their banderillas in the hides of their talk-show guests.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was here that the same difficulty arose, for alas! it could not be expected that the poor bull, who had shown no relish whatever for the pica, should evince any taste for the banderillas.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various