单词 | bullfight |
释义 | 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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