Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Lacework; hence, in decorative art, decoration in color or relief in slender lines or points resembling lace: applied especially to such work of Spanish origin.
Wiktionary
- n. bullfighting The small dagger to administer the coup de grâce to the bull.
Etymologies
- From Spanish puntilla. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Miss Mary would have killed her lion and been happy about it always and I would only have given him the puntilla and she would know it and love me very much forever world without end amen.”
“_puntilla_, which he drives into its head, the horse falls on its side,”
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia
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Tauromachy
Bullfighting terms used in the Hemingway book "The Dangerous Summer"
aficionado, alternativa, apartado, arena, banderilla, banderillero, barrera, brío, burladero, callejón, capa, capote and 77 more...
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