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.

A matador was mortally wounded in the Valencia ring that summer, a banderillero was trampled at the Escorial, and those favorite stabbers, Reverte and Bombita, were themselves stabbed by avenging horns.

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.