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
Colonel O'Donnel remembered Señor Olivero since the time when he was a banderillero; oh, incomparably the most brilliant banderillero of his day.
From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both
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
In the ring, distributed here and there, were some half a dozen professional fighters on foot, called banderilleros and chulos, besides which there were two on horseback, known as picadors.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou
There was a thunder of drums and the banderilleros came on, gorgeous in velvet, glittering in spangle and tinsel.
From Five Nights by Victoria Cross
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