banderillan.
/bandəˈri(j)ə/ A little dart, ornamented with a banderole, which dexterous bullfighters stick into the neck and shoulders of the bull; also figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun] > equipment
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media luna1838
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vara1932
1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 772/1 The..banderilleros..plunge into his neck..a kind of darts called banderillas.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Nov. 3 He will begin to see the barb of the banderilla under its paper disguise.
1882 H. de Windt On Equator ix. 138 Each was armed with the banderillo, small barbed darts, about a foot long.
1927 E. Hemingway Men without Women 44 Fuentes..sank the banderillos straight down.
1939 S. Spender & J. L. Gili tr. F. G. Lorca Poems 123 How tremendous with the final Banderillas of darkness.
1948 L. MacNeice Holes in Sky 61 Gaudy banderillas May quiver in our flanks.
Derivatives
banderilla v. (also in Spanish form banderillear) (transitive and intransitive) to stick a banderilla into (a bull).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > fight bull [verb (transitive)] > stick banderilla into neck or shoulders of bull
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1932 E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon xvii. 198 Very rarely..a man is able to banderillear properly from both sides.
1932 E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon xvii. 197 Bulls which will not charge..are banderilla-ed by..the media-vuelta or half-turn.
bandeˈrilling n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun] > actions of bullfighter
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1932 R. Campbell Taurine Provence iii. 70 The art of banderilling is not only a matter of speed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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