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ˈbull-fight
[Of recent introduction, having superseded bull-feast (see bull n.1 11), which is found in Ash and Bailey, while neither they nor Johnson give bull-fight.]
A sport practised in Spain, in which a bull is first attacked by horsemen called toreadores, and footmen called picadores, and finally slain by a swordsman called matador. Hence bull-fighter, -ing vbl. n.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Bull, Bull-fighting, a sport or exercise much in vogue among the Spaniards and Portugueze. 1788Ld. Auckland Diary in Corr. II. 63 All the gentlemen..went for the first time to the bull-fight. 1846Byron's Wks. 13/1 note, The professional bull-fighter gave..lessons. 1862Sat. Rev. XIV. 219/2 If we go on in this way, we shall be ready for bull-fights and gladiators. 1883Sunday Mag. 575/1 Ferdinand VII founded at Seville a university for..education..in the art of bull-fighting.
b. ? = bull-baiting.
1824J. McCulloch Highlands Scotl. I. 367 If there is not a bull-fight at Wrexham or Stamford, some squire is born, and there is a bull-feast at Grantham or Chirk. |