picador
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He meant he wanted to be a picador with the house’s heritage rather than just aiming for the heart of the nouveau riche.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2011
As Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury."
From Time Magazine Archive
Unamuno places guilt as deftly as a picador against whose fearful horse's flank the blundering bull of social judgment charges.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than three or four charges at the picador.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out on the plateau beyond the town employees of the bull-ring exercised picador horses, galloping them stiff-legged on the hard, sun-baked fields behind the bull-ring.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
"Qué picadores diablos!" they screeched to one another across the narrow ways.
From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
The picadores formed in front of him, each with a black or yellow poncha in his left hand, and poising his spear with the right.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
His horse had bolted in another direction from mine, and we heard afterwards that the picadores had galloped in between me and the sporting bull and turned him back.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson
The picadores tried him with no further success, until a waving of handkerchiefs was seen among the audience.
From On the Equator by Harry De Windt
The three picadores also went to their posts, at equal distance from each other, near to the barrier.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
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
There are many matadors, picadors, minotaurs, bulls and horses in a new show exploring Picasso and the importance of bullfighting – but also a glimpse of his terrible treatment of women.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2017
Though she turned away when the picadors lanced the bulls, she watched each pass of the bulls with fascination.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bullring sequences get along without picadors or coups de grace, and apparently the same old company bull is photographed again & again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Romero waved his picadors to their places, then stood, his cape against his chest, looking across the ring to where the bull would come out.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
