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Matador   /mˈætədˌɔr/   Listen
Matador

noun
1.
The principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull.





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"Matador" Quotes from Famous Books



... overwhelmed with demands for his most popular ones. A dozen students and girls at one end of the little hall, now swimming in a haze of pipe and cigarette smoke, are hammering with sticks and parasols for "Le matador avec les pieds du vent"; another crowd is yelling for "La Goularde." Marcel Legay smiles at them all through his eyeglasses, then roars at them to keep quiet—and finally the clamor in the room gradually subsides—here and there a word—a ...
— The Real Latin Quarter • F. Berkeley Smith
... struggle was kept up for twenty minutes or more, when the poor creature, bleeding from a hundred wounds, seemed nearly exhausted. Then, at a sign from the director, there was a grand flourish of trumpets, and the matador, a skillful swordsman and the hero of the occasion, entered the ring to close with the bull, singly. The other fighters withdrew and the matador advanced with a scarlet flag in one hand and his naked sword in the other. The bull ...
— Due South or Cuba Past and Present • Maturin M. Ballou


Words linked to "Matador" :   toreador, bullfighter


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