单词 | monosabio |
释义 | monosabion. Bullfighting. A picador's assistant in the ring. Cf. mono n.2 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun] > bullfighter > assistant or attendant chulo1797 puntillero1851 monosabio1897 capeador1909 mono1924 mozo1926 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 158/2 Monos sabios, boys and men employed in the service of the bull fight. 1928 Daily Tel. 17 July 9/3 In another bull-ring at Vista Allegre..the matador Albageno and a ‘monosabio’ were dangerously wounded by bulls yesterday. 1932 E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon xvi. 187 [The] San Sebastian monosabios should be, by rights, policemen... They carry..puntillas, broad-headed knives. 1973 J. M. White Garden Game 61 An image from the corrida de toros..the monosabios smoothing the cruelly trampled area. 1995 Times (Nexis) 3 May Most horses thus treated lie stunned until thrashed to their feet by the long canes of the red-sashed monosabios (attendants). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1897 |
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