banderilla
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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.
The animals are not weakened by banderillas – darts which stab the bull in the neck and shoulders before the kill.
From The Guardian
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
In celebration, the story goes, the quintessentially Peruvian condor was set like a living banderilla to torment the imperial bull.
From New York Times
This whirlwind of a bull, who shook off all but one of the banderillas, mortified even the matadores.
From Project Gutenberg
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