tauriciden.
/ˈtɔːrɪsʌɪd/ rare.
1. A bull-slayer; a matador.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun] > bullfighter > types of
toreador1618
matador1681
torero1728
picador1775
banderillero1797
rejoneador1834
tauricide1845
espada1882
lidiador1893
peon1923
pic1925
pic1926
1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross I. ix. 169 Cambyses, the tauricide,..and the desert..have left little trouble to the tourist.
1852 Fraser's Mag. 45 536 The great tauricide still hesitated.
2. The slaughter of a bull.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun]
slaughtera1300
to make larder ofa1330
murdering?a1475
fall1575
butchering1609
ovicide1828
felicide1832
poultrycide1841
piscicide1847
vealing1847
kill1850
slaughterage1854
birdicide1862
apricide1864
insecticide1865
vulpicidism1865
vulpicide1873
serpenticide1882
tauricide1882
vaccicide1887
leporicide1914
culling1938
cull1958
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 2 If you kill him you are guilty of felony or tauricide.
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