释义 |
‖ peto|ˈpeto| [Sp.] A padded or stuffed protective covering for a picador's horse.
1957A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia v. 52 The number of pics is not rigid..for with the peto the contact may last some time, and not be broken at once as in the pre-peto days. 1967McCormick & Mascareñas Compl. Aficionado ii. 35 Before 1928, when the peto was introduced, the work of the picador was more prominent than it is in the modern corrida. 1968Economist 17 Feb. 32/1 It was she [sc. Queen Victoria Eugenia] who insisted on the use of the peto, the ugly mattress-like covering that protects picadors' horses, though not infallibly, from disembowelment. |