toreador
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And he began to develop the toreador routine to replace the hat-over-the-hole trick after some players complained he might be damaging the cup or leaving spike marks on the green with his dancing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
Zambello has cast him as the toreador Escamillo in WNO’s production of Bizet’s “Carmen” set for this spring.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
From there, Nadal started crushing his forehands with the signature toreador finish, whipping his left arm above his head.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021
Came a jet-beaded toreador bolero atop a leather milkmaid corset and motocross pants.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
Beautiful men in toreador outfits joined their ladies.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
On view were hastily brushed, large canvases of musketeers, toreadors, atelier scenes and cavorting couples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
His grandfather was an amateur bullfighter, and the local toreadors used to come by the house to get ready for corridas.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2018
Instead, the toreadors are waving variously coloured silk scarves and prancing around as if the ground is too hot to stand on.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2013
Here is a Madison Avenue type in J. Press suit, there a teen-ager in toreadors, over there a gangly businessman on holiday, all legs and knobby knees in Bermuda shorts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes he got a piece of them, but most of the time they just sidestepped him like toreadors or pushed him away as though he was a bothersome younger cousin.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
