matador

And who would have guessed that a grail of It-ness would be part of the show, nestled next to the matador jacket worn by Rudolph Valentino in 1922’s “Blood and Sand.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

This relentless bull market may finally have found its matador.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Hawley embraces “wonderful peacock” 1850s menswear shapes: Victor’s puffed-out chest accentuates the “wasp waist” likening him to a matador.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

We meet Iñaki, the manager here who is appropriately more matador than barkeep.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

The child was doubly mistaken, for in the first place she meant matador, and in the second place there was no matador, just a bright red steam locomotive.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

The two matadors had already faced off twice in the preceding weeks, and each time Manolete found himself at odds with the public, as the crowds thronged behind Dominguín instead.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2022

Wearing mandatory face masks and sitting in fumigated seats separated by stickers, fans watched matadors take on seven bulls in a charity contest to raise money for jobless bullfighters and other workers in the sector.

From Reuters ● May 2, 2021

Wagon-wheel chandelier, cereal boxes, dirty dishes, green shag carpet, orange vinyl couch patched with duct tape, two sad-looking boys dressed as matadors staring from a painting on the wall.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018

Shown nearby are paintings of matadors, which have a child-like quality but were made by Picasso towards the end of his life in the early 1970s.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2017

The matadors bowed, holding their hats on, before the President's box, and then came over to the barrera below us.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway