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

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

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

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

In one of Goya's bull-fighting sketches, we may see a Moor, with a cloak on the left arm, and a dart in the right hand, practising the suerte de banderilla.

From The Story of Seville by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

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

Lithe and lightfoot under the bright summer sun, the matador waited impatiently while the banderillas were planted.

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