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- noun bullfighting the area of the bull-ring where the
bull makes its stand
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Examples
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E.H. refers in several works to the analogous place a bull prefers, and he defines "querencia" in Death in the Afternoon as that "part of the ring that the bull prefers to be in; where he feels at home."
Querencia 2006
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She was the first person I knew to use the word "querencia", and she is the single biggest influence on who I am today.
Betsy 2006
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She was the first person I knew to use the word "querencia", and she is the single biggest influence on who I am today.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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Por medio de la fotografía y la redacción de algunos textos que acompañan a las fotos podemos notar como los niños van más allá de lo que comúnmente puede verse en el pueblo, pues el contacto humano y la querencia de un pueblo en paz nos sirve para darnos cuenta en cómo la luz de sus miradas traducen el universo ideal que está dentro de sus visiones futuras.
Global Voices in English » Venezuela: How Children Show Their Community Through Photography II 2009
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Each bull will find its querencia in a different place in the ring, though not uncommonly near the gate where it entered.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 1) JTK Belle 2010
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A bull's querencia is the spot in the bullring where the bull feels safest.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 1) JTK Belle 2010
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His father, William F. Buckley Jr., "was fond of a Spanish word, querencia," he said.
Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed 2010
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The skilled matador will turn the bull's querencia to his own advantage, luring the bull into a tenuous security before preparing for the final blow.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 1) JTK Belle 2010
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When a fighting bull's courage is finally taken—when the bull is worn down by the toreros, exhausted and resigned to its fate in the ring—it will go to its querencia, that spot where the bull feels safest, where it will return, predictably, where the matador will have to lure him forward to deliver the final, fatal blow.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 1) JTK Belle 2010
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Did you notice how he went to the bull in its querencia?
Carlos The Impossible (Part 1) JTK Belle 2010
sionnach commented on the word querencia
querencia (plural querencias)
1. (bullfighting) the area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its final stand.
* 1994: The wolf paced and circled limping on three legs and then crouched by the iron stake where it seemed she’d made her querencia. — Cormac McCarthy, "The Crossing".
October 19, 2008