bullfightn.
a. A sport practised in Spain, in which a bull is first attacked by horsemen called toreadores, and footmen called picadores, and finally slain by a swordsman called matador.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun]
bull-feast1688
toreador1728
bullfighting1753
bullfight1788
tauromachy1846
corrida1898
tauromachics1934
1788 Ld. Auckland Diary in Corr. II. 63 All the gentlemen..went for the first time to the bull-fight.
1862 Sat. Rev. 14 219/2 If we go on in this way, we shall be ready for bull-fights and gladiators.
b. ? = bull-baiting n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > animal baiting > [noun] > bull-baiting
bull-baiting1574
bull-running1622
bulling1645
bull-bait1656
bull run1788
bull-feast1824
bullfight1824
1824 J. Macculloch Highlands & W. Isles I. 367 If there is not a bull-fight at Wrexham or Stamford, some squire is born, and there is a bull-feast at Grantham or Chirk.
Derivatives
bullfighter n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun] > bullfighter
bullfighter1846
taurobole1934
1846 Byron's Wks. 13/1 (note) The professional bull-fighter gave..lessons.
bullfighting n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > bullfighting or bullfight > [noun]
bull-feast1688
toreador1728
bullfighting1753
bullfight1788
tauromachy1846
corrida1898
tauromachics1934
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bull Bull-fighting, a sport or exercise much in vogue among the Spaniards and Portugueze.
1883 Sunday Mag. 575/1 Ferdinand VII founded at Seville a university for..education..in the art of bull-fighting.
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