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banderillero

[ban-duh-ree-air-oh, -reel-yair-, bahn-de-ree-lye-raw, -ye-] / ˌbæn də riˈɛər oʊ, -rilˈjɛər-, ˌbɑn dɛ riˈljɛ rɔ, -ˈjɛ- /


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He began his career as a banderillero, became one of the best in the business, and then made the unusual transition to matador.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

A banderillero now advances with a pair of the banderillas, or barbed darts, before mentioned.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

That banderillero," said Jacinta, sweetly, "should have been driven out of the ring.

From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold

He leads his crew not of banderilleros and picadors, but of drink crafters and cooks through flawless passes to a demanding mob, his “domination of the bull.”

From Salon Nov. 8, 2025

Later, while dismounted picadors are getting over the fence, the capaderos engage the bull's attention until the coming of the banderilleros.

From Time Magazine Archive

Back of them were their people, and behind the banderilleros, back in the passageway and in the open space of the corral, I saw the picadors.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Torellas left the ring, and the banderilleros took possession.

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

Their places, therefore, had to be taken by the banderilleros.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno




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