tauromachyn.

1846 W. M. Thackeray Notes Journey Cornhill to Cairo ii. 15 It was not a real Spanish tauromachy—only a theatrical combat.

1846 Times 17 June 5/6 The art of tauromachy has just sustained an irreparable loss by the death of Montes, the Spanish matador.

1892 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 292 In the interests of civilisation and progress, it declares against the tauromachies.

1902 Munsey's Mag. 26 524/2 Under the Bourbons, it [bull-fighting] went out of royal fashion, though it was still practised, and it was restored by Ferdinand VII, who established a college of tauromachy.

1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 789/1 Bull-fighting, the national Spanish sport. The Spanish name is tauromaquia.]

1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. xi. 147 After public renunciation of tauromachie, gracefully made among a circle of Spanish friends.

1967 J. McCormick & M. S. Mascareñas Compl. Aficionado ii. 35 One has only..to read certain of the early manuals of tauromachia..to realize that..a good deal has been gained through modern changes.

1969 C. Irving Fake! (1970) viii. 99 He was to do over two hundred of them [sc. drawings], the best of which are probably in the Picasso Tauromachia series.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. ii. 146 A tendency to gitanesque and tauro-machian slang.

1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain (1906) 233 The beloved monarch shut up the lecture rooms forthwith, opening..by way of compensation, a tauromachian university.

1887 Daily Tel. 17 June (Cassell) The matador is forbidden by the laws of tauromachic etiquette to attack the bull.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 13 June 2/1 There are about fifteen special tauromachic newspapers..in France.

1934 F. M. Ford Let. 14 Sept. (1965) 234 I don't know why I should deluge you with..tauromachics.