Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to tauromachy or bull-fighting; disposed to regard public bull-fights with favor.
- noun One who engages in bull-fights; a bullfighter; a toreador.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to bullfights.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
bullfighting . - noun A
bullfighter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thither Andre's, who felt his old tauromachian ardour revive at the report of such prowess, persuaded his wife to accompany him, and at the appointed hour they took their places in a box at the circus.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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The torero, once more master of the _jurisdiction_, as it is said in tauromachian slang, settled himself firmly on his heels, and manoeuvred with the muleta to make the bull lower his head.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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Bilbao, too, with his thundering heels and his tauromachian gestures, bewilders our highly magnetized senses.
The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922
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I must copy the inscription on the sword which Tato presented to Lagartijo, as a specimen of tauromachian literature: --
Castilian Days John Hay 1870
sionnach commented on the word tauromachian
pertaining to bullfighting
October 9, 2007