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picador::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | bullfighter, equestrian, horseback rider, horseman, toreador |
Examples of picador
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A picador looks on before a bullfight at the Monumental bullring in Barcelona, Spain.
From the guardian.co.uk
Picador is reissuing these Tom Wolfe titles in new paperback editions.
From the usatoday.com
In this painting from about 1927 a torero puts his hand softly on the shoulder of a picador.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In his imposing life-size portrait of a Spanish picador he seems to be channeling Diego Velazquez.
From the orlandosentinel.com
You can't be torero, picador, banderillero, and bull.
From the post-gazette.com
His tousled host shook his mighty head like a bull that had just been pricked by an impudent picador.
From the time.com
Picador was launched in the UK in 1972 with the aim of publishing outstanding international writing in paperback.
From the en.wikipedia.org
When his head is bowed, it is not in resignation but rather like that of a bull bloodied by the picador yet ready to charge again.
From the time.com
- The horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low
- A picador (pl. picadores) is one of the pair of horsemen in a Spanish bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the tercio de varas which is the first of the three stages in a Spanish bullfight.
- Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
- A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
- Literally translated at horse-trainer. Agave field worker who does the desquiote.
- Lancer whose job it is to weaken bull's neck muscles
- The shytz. And how could I have forgotten Montezuma's Revenge and Gyppy Tummy? (Depending upon whether you picked it up in Mexico or the Middle East.)
