Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A decorated barbed dart that is thrust into the bull's neck or shoulder muscles by a banderillero in a bullfight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small dartlike javelin ornamented with a banderole, used in bull-fights to goad and infuriate the bull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun bullfighting A
stick with asharp end and adecorated end, which abullfighter stick into thebull 's back.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sometimes firecrackers are ingeniously inserted, which go off when the banderilla is deftly fastened in the beast's quivering flesh.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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Ask for a "banderilla," a small skewer of spicy, pickled veggies
CNN.com 2010
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Ask for a "banderilla," a small skewer of spicy, pickled veggies.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Ask for a "banderilla," a small skewer of spicy, pickled veggies
CNN.com 2010
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But William Brownfield is a smart guy and he was not going to waste an opportunity to put banderilla in the wounded Venezuelan bull.
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But William Brownfield is a smart guy and he was not going to waste an opportunity to put banderilla in the wounded Venezuelan bull.
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The important thing is to thrust the banderilla into her - forgive the bullfighting image - to see where the bull will lead us or, should I say, the young heifer.
The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz 2001
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Spain, was brilliant with the cape, fine with the banderilla and poetic with the muleta.
Mexico Michener, James 1992
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Cloaks were tossed to attendants, each footman received a red cape, the two _picadores_ took position one on either side of the bull pen gate, the band struck up a tune, the gate was opened and a great Utreran bull bounded into the arena, maddened with the pain of a short _banderilla_, with long streaming ribbons, stuck in his neck as he entered, by an attendant perched above the gate.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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And so he awaited the charge until the bull was within actual arm's-reach, when with a swift rise from the chair and a turn of his body quick as that of a fencer's supple wrist, he bent and stuck the teeth-held banderilla in the bull's shoulder as he swept past.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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