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banderillero|ˌbanderiˈʎero| [c gray][f. banderilla, with agential suffix -ero].[/c] The bull-fighter who uses banderillas. Also fig.
1797Encycl. Brit. III. 772/1 The..banderilleros..plunge into his neck..a kind of darts called banderillas. 1845R. Ford Trav. Spain I. ii. 182 The banderilleros go right up to him, holding the arrows at the shaft, and pointing the barbs at the bull. 1864Duke of Manchester Crt. & Soc. Eliz. to Anne I. 24 The ladies danced with picadors and banderilleros. 1932Hemingway Death in Aft. iii. 26 Men who..place the banderillas..are called peones or banderilleros. 1934R. Campbell Broken Record ii. 48, I am only a banderillero in the cuadrilla of that great matador [Wyndham Lewis]. |