Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bullfighting; a bull-fight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Bullfighting.
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- noun
Bullfighting (in classical times)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the activity at a bullfight
Etymologies
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Examples
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Still, they could always take this particular political bull down to the Bull Ring and practice their tauromachy on him .....
Archive 2008-08-03 2008
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Still, they could always take this particular political bull down to the Bull Ring and practice their tauromachy on him .....
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He stayed in touch with Hemingway and tended his own collection of tauromachy -- bullfighting ephemera -- which he estimated at "well over 1,700 items."
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The streets were plastered with placards of a bull-fight, to take place the next evening (there was no opera that season); but it was not a real Spanish tauromachy — only a theatrical combat, as you could see by the picture in which the horseman was cantering off at three miles an hour, the bull tripping after him with tips to his gentle horns.
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The good king Ferdinand VII. -- as precious a rascal as ever graced a throne -- founded in Seville the first academy for the cultivation of tauromachy, and bull-fighters swagger through the Sierpes in great numbers and the most faultless costume.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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La Lidia was published between 1882 and 1900 and the chromolithography’s contributed to a great extent to the popularity of the magazine and the diffusion of the important changes that were taking place in the artistic approach of tauromachy.
La Lidia tellurian 2008
qms commented on the word tauromachy
To aficionados it's a deep event.
A bull fight is less scene than meant.
To name it exactly
It’s tauromachy,
Not sport, neither art, but sacrament.
February 3, 2014