banderilla
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For the banderilla: In a medium bowl, combine mojo picón and Manchego cheese, stirring to coat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2018
A prettier conceit is that of confining small birds in paper cages, which come apart when the banderilla is planted, and set the little fluttering captives free.
From Castilian Days by John Hay
The jaunty insouciance of the young range-rider irritated him as a banderilla goads a bull in the ring.
From Steve Yeager by William MacLeod Raine
And the smile was as a banderilla to her niece's goaded spirit.
From New Faces by Charles F. Neagle
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
Or, banderillas can be made up to two days ahead and kept covered in the refrigerator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2018
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
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
Dark-browed boys played toreros to our car as bull, their coats muletas, sticks their banderillas, yelling and springing lithely aside as the enemy rushed on them.
From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both
