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torero
[ tuh-rair-oh; Spanish taw-re-raw ]
noun
, plural to·re·ros [t, uh, -, rair, -ohz, taw-, re, -, r, aws].
- a bullfighter, especially a matador.
torero
/ tɒˈrɛərəʊ /
noun
- a bullfighter, esp one who fights on foot
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of torero1
C18: from Spanish, from Late Latin taurārius, from Latin taurus a bull
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Example Sentences
He was the perfect and characteristic type of a torero, such as Spanish fancy has always imagined it.
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To their wives is due much of the making and all the keeping up of the elaborate and costly dress of the torero.
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They caused the torero to repeat it again and again, until the spotted mustang had become all of one colour.
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He was named, of course, after the famous torero described by Gautier in his "Voyage en Espagne."
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All other nations seem to take kindly to it, but torero is the Spanish for bull-fighter.
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