Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
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- noun bullfighting The small
dagger to administer thecoup de grâce to the bull.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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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.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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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.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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_puntilla_, which he drives into its head, the horse falls on its side,
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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