banderillero

He slips in telling statistics with the skill of a banderillero, using them always to secure a point and move his story forward.

His older brother was with him as a banderillero, but he did not live in this hotel.

As well as the matadors themselves, 16 of their assistants were injured - these include "picadors" on horseback, "banderilleros" on foot, and a sword page.

At last our hideous greed was glutted, and the banderilleros took their turn in baiting the now enfeebled but undaunted bull.

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.