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‖ novillo|noˈviʎo|
[Sp.]
A young bull; spec. a fighting bull not more than three years old.
1838Quarterly Rev. LXII. 398 A calf, a ‘novillo’—which true bull-fighters place on a par with a cow. 1846R. Ford Gatherings from Spain xxi. 292 The villagers..amuse themselves with baiting novillos, or bull-youngsters—calves of one year old. 1925E. Hemingway The Undefeated in This Quarter ii. 205 You can..kill two novillos... Whatever stuff they've got in the corrals. 1967McCormick & Mascareñas Compl. Aficionado ii. 32 The neophyte..while gaining experience, faces not toros (four-year-olds and up) but novillos (three-year-olds). |