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‖ lidia|ˈliðja|
[Sp., lit. ‘fight’.]
A bull-fight, esp. the earlier stages in which the cuadrilla prepare the bull for the faena; the process whereby the torero obliges the bull to conform to his movements. So lidiador |ˈliðjaðor|, a torero considered as controlling his art and the actions of his picadors, and the responses of the bull.
1893Chapman & Buck Wild Spain v. 57 It was a gay and imposing scene..when the lidia, or tournament, took place. Ibid. 59 De Bedoya's ‘Historia del Toréo’..gives Francisco de Romera as the first professional lidiador of the modern epoch. 1932E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon 445 Lidia, the fight... Lidiador, one who fights bulls. 1952J. Marks To Bullfight iv. 50 This task consists in calling the toreros to order if they infringe any of the rules that govern the course of la lidia, which is the actual conduct of the fight. 1957A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia i. 11 After a while they start learning to distinguish the cloth from the body. Some breeds..learn quickly, and unless the man knows his stuff properly (‘gives correct lidia’ is the technical expression), he is apt to find himself hanging on a horn. Ibid. xv. 230 Antonio is far too good a lidiador to..request the President to change the Act. 1967McCormick & Mascarenas Compl. Aficionado i. 25 As with tragedy, the lidia to the noble bull has about it an aura of inevitability. Ibid. viii. 240 He wants the bull to follow the muleta smoothly, as he educated the animal to do throughout his entire lidia. |