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bullfight

[ bool-fahyt ]

noun

  1. a traditional Spanish, Portuguese, or Latin American spectacle in which a bull is fought fought by a matador, assisted by banderilleros and picadors, in a prescribed way in an arena and is usually killed.


bullfight

/ ˈbʊlˌfaɪt /

noun

  1. a traditional Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American spectacle in which a matador, assisted by banderilleros and mounted picadors, baits and usually kills a bull in an arena
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈbullˌfighting, noun
  • ˈbullˌfighter, noun
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Other Words From

  • bullfighting noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bullfight1

First recorded in 1745–55; bull 1 + fight
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Example Sentences

Then we marvel at the Teatro Real opera house and proceed through the winding streets of old Madrid to the Plaza Mayor, once the site of Inquisition autos-da-fé, royal celebrations, and bullfights.

He wrote with empathy of women dying in childbirth, while penning paragraph after paragraph about bullfights.

What we remember most from his books isn’t the wars or the bullfights.

She saw her first bullfight at seven while on a family vacation in Mexico, and fell in love with the sport.

Across the stadium in the northeast corner, the mass of red-colored fans of Bnei Sakhnin was like a flag at a bullfight.

No campaign can afford a multitude of competing strategies, or row upon row of bullfight critics publicly questioning every move.

But, she added, “The bullfight is an ecosystem and, one could say, an honest one.”

In the Sunday newspaper, the reporter said that the painting stayed somehow alive through the whole bullfight.

He ceased to find pleasure in his nets and boar spears, in the fandango and the bullfight.

She had forgotten that a bullfight meant that there would be blood and killing.

By this the whole matter had presented itself to them as an entertainment more diverting than bullfight or bear-baiting.

He swallowed a tumbler of port, a wine he rarely touched; but he felt worse now than after the bullfight.

Shelton was conscious of a shiver running through the audience which reminded him of a bullfight he had seen in Spain.

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