单词 | razeteur |
释义 | razeteurn. Bullfighting. A person who competes in a razet; spec. a member of a competing team who attempts to snatch the rosette from between a bull's horns. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > French bullfighting > [noun] > bullfighter razeteur1927 1927 Illustr. London News 24 Sept. 503/2 The object is to pluck off a cockade that is fixed between the animal's horns. It is not always easy, even for the most expert of razeteurs. 1961 Times 8 July 10/6 There are two classes, a tourneur or decoy, whose function is to turn the bull in order to favour the chances of his partner, the razateur (sometimes crocheteur). 1963 E. Heimann & A. Heimann tr. Droit Camargue iii. 28 The razéteurs... Called thus because they pass so close to the bull that they literally graze, or shave, by him. 1976 N. Roberts Face of France ix. 106 The razeteurs, the young men who get their name from the razet, or running half circle, which they describe in their efforts to snatch the [bull's] cocarde. 1989 Caravan Life Aug. 31/4 Bullfighting does take place in the Camargue, the bulls and Matadors coming from Spain, but in the area's own version the bullfighter—the Razeteur—has only a blunt hooked crochet which he uses to snatch a rosette—cocarde—from between the bull's horns. 2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 17 Apr. (Travel section) 3 A good bull will turn and chase the man, and the excitement comes when both parties end up at the barrier together, because the razeteur must now vault over the red-painted wooden barrier or be gored. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1927 |
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