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A Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle
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bullfight
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Word definitions for bullfight in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bullfight \Bull"fight`\, Bullfighting \Bull"fight`ing\, n. a sport of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain, Portugal and Latin American. In the Spanish version ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Do not attend a bullfight unless you are prepared to see blood, often great quantities of it. ▪ Ernest Hemingway thought the bullfight dramatized this truth. ▪ Then for a while I had dawdled across the street, where I watched ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators [syn: corrida ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A public spectacle, in Spain and some other Latin countries, in which a person baits and often kills a bull.
Usage examples of bullfight.
Which is how I came to be standing in the middle of the Plaza de Toros in Madrid in a fancy bullfighting outfit while El Diablo stared at me through his beady little eyes and pawed the dirt.
Smash had dragged me in, but when I got there I found a bunch of guys in bullfighting outfits all laughing their heads off.
Jourdian had wanted to know everything about bullfighting when his parents returned from the trip.
The walls were covered with bullfighting posters and a few of his own paintings, but pride of place was given to a bloodstained bullfighting cape that was cut into spokelike shadows by the bright wheel lamp that hung between the beams of the ceiling.
But I want to sit with you guys at the bullfight, just so it don't slip your minds.
You have been charged with conspiring to fix the outcome of a bullfight, and to make an enormous profit thereby.
The restaurant was tall for a cantina, a two-story job with pink walls and green tablecloths and enough bullfight posters, banderillas, and other ersatz Mex crap hanging around for a real matador to go for the owner's ears and tail.
Jake has planned a trip to Pamplona, Spain, for the famous festival of San Fermin, which is highlighted by the running of bulls through the streets, and a week of bullfights.
One reason the characters go to the bullfights in Spain is to recapture the excitement of the war.
First he and Bill will go fishing in Burguete, then on to Pamplona, an inland Basque town with a famous fiesta called the Feria del San Fermin, complete with a running of the bulls through the city streets and a week of bullfights.
Aficion means passion, and an aficionado is one who is passionate about the bullfights.
Both Jake, who has aficion, and Hemingway, who loved bullfights and wrote a book about them called Death in the Afternoon, believed, at least superficially, that bullfighting had value.
But Ludwig Bellamy could have gone home to the Territories and lived like a minor king on his estates, and Staenbridge had more than enough in the way of charm and connections to get a posting in East Residence, not too far from the bullfights, the opera and the better restaurants.
At least Marie could sit out the war in a city with plenty of balls and theater and opera, or bullfights and baseball stadiums.
They had some bloodless bullfights in California, and the nut colonies out there like it so good, first thing you know, we really had it.