toreador

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It was no good, but the toreador was a king.

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  • "I was looking out of the window of the posada and I saw him spring into the cask like a toreador with a Seville bull at his heels." —  Adventures Of Gerard
  • Your wit at this time of the morning is like pork for breakfast, heavy on the stomach Sean took a silk shirt out of his drawer, held it like a toreador's cape, made two passes and swirled it onto his back with a half veronica. —  When the Lion Feeds
  • It was no good, but the toreador was a king. —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • (And although the word toreador has been Englished, any Spaniard or Mexican who used it would be laughed out of the room. —  Mexico
 

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  1. Spanish, from torear, to fight bulls, from toro, bull, from Latin taurus; see tauro- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Also torrcador, taureader; from Spanish toreador, a bull-fighter, from torear, engage in a bull-fight, from toro, a bull: see steer.
 

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/tɑrɛəˈdɔr/
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