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
And the smile was as a banderilla to her niece's goaded spirit.
From New Faces by Neagle, Charles F.
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 Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
The jaunty insouciance of the young range-rider irritated him as a banderilla goads a bull in the ring.
From Steve Yeager by Raine, William MacLeod
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 Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
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
Consequently a great confusion arose, and a simultaneous call for banderillas de fuego, was heard on every side.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
