tauromachy
/tɔːˈrɒməki
/noun (plural tauromachies) [mass noun] rare
1Bullfighting.Thanks to Tilo for sending me a link to a paper on the ancient Tamil tradition of tauromachy, bull-baiting....
- It discusses the culture of Spain from 1700 to the present: painting, sculpture, architecture, tauromachy, manners, and customs.
- The Seville slaughterhouse was the first official school of tauromachy in Spain.
1.1 [count noun] A bullfight.He is a bull slowly wrestled down in some terrible tauromachy....
- At some of the towns where St. Sernin is said to have founded churches, such as Eauze and Pamplona, the tauromachy exists today.
- There are more than 80 paintings, pastels and drawings created during the past five years: still-lifes, and brothel and tauromachy scenes.
Derivatives
tauromachian
- Braque, unlike Picasso, was not a bullfight enthusiast, and he probably included these tauromachian allusions - the only ones in his oeuvre - as a tribute to his friend.
- I admired the tauromachian flourish with which, at the end of a haircut, they removed the white bib they had placed around their customers' necks.
- Perhaps the outstanding characteristic of Aficionado is its almost massive minutiae about everything tauromachian.
tauromachic
- The ‘pega’ is an exclusively Portuguese cultural and tauromachic phenomenon.
- She has been following the bull since the days of Cesar Giron and Litri, has a filing-case memory for every tauromachic fact invented by man or bull.
- It cannot be captured by the cool accounts of the attendant aficionados who pride themselves on their knowledge of the tauromachic craft.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek tauromakhia, from tauros 'bull' + makhē 'battle'.