razetn.
/ˈrazeɪ/, U.S. /ˈræzeɪ/ Bullfighting. rare.
In southern France: a contest in which competitors attempt to snatch a rosette from between a bull's horns.
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1932 R. Campbell Taurine Provence ii. 43 The finest thing in the French arena..is the razet, or the course of the cocarde-bearing bulls.
1967 J. McCormick & M. S. Mascareñas Compl. Aficionado vi. 210 Confusion with Spanish toreo arises in the sport which the French call the course de cocardes (or razet), in which the athlete, unarmed with cape or muleta, attempts to snatch from between the bull's horns the rosette (cocarde), or divisa, of the owner.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1932- to call on
- to call one's bluff
- to call one's course
- to call one's own
- to call one's shot
- to call one's soul one's own
- to call one's way
- to call one'the bluff
- to call or take to one's witness
- to call or take to witness
- to call out
- to call out sick
- to call over
- to call over the house
- to etc daylight into
- to etc daylight through
- to etc deli
- to etc doughnuts
- to etc down a person's throat
- to etc down to grass
- to etc downright
- to etc etc price of
- to etc etc price upon
- to etc extent
- to etc filthy on