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Picador

noun
1.
The horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low.





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"Picador" Quotes from Famous Books



... will think you one too, Bess, when he hears of you facing charging bulls like a Spanish picador, all to save churlish fools from their folly," ...
— Rodney, the Ranger - With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield • John V. Lane
... He surveyed the ground, turning his menacing head on all sides—he still hesitated: the cheers, shrill and penetrating, became more and more shrill and frequent. Then with a quickness which neither his weight nor his bulk foretold, he sprang towards the picador, who planted a lance in his withers. The bull felt a sharp pain, and soon drew back. It was one of those animals which in the language of bull-fighting are called "boyantes," that is to say, undecided and wavering; whence he did ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various


Words linked to "Picador" :   equestrian, bullfighter, horseman, horseback rider, toreador


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