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Answer for the clue "Matador's red lure ", 6 letters:
muleta

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A muleta is a stick with a red cloth hanging from it that is used in the final third ( tercio de muleta or de muerte ) of a bullfight . It is different from the cape used by the matador earlier in the fight ( capote de brega ). The muleta obscures the sword ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context bullfighting English) A red flag used by bullfighters.

Usage examples of muleta.

Manolecito, who caused the bull to charge time after time at the small red cloth of the muleta, the horns missing only by inches the firm-standing, glittering green, insolent, lean figure, now blood-splashed, of the matador.

He also admired the courage and skill of Manolecito, the way he held his body straight without flinching back as the horns almost brushed his chest or thigh, confident in his judgment that this time the beast would not suddenly hook his horns sideways, away from the muleta and into the man.

Then, as if the palm of his hand were a tiny muleta, Tarzan drew it abruptly down and two feet to the right.

In caping the bull, he worked within inches of the animal, while with the muleta he reduced inches to their fractions.

Paulus held his muleta with one hand, jiggling the cloth, and snatched out one of his barbed banderillas.

Paulus held his muleta with one hand, jiggling the cloth, and snatched out one of his barbed banderillas.

Corto y derecho, he drew the sword out of the muleta, profiled on the splintered left horn, dropped the muleta across his body, so his right hand with the sword on the level with his eye made the sign of the cross, and, rising on his toes, sighted along the dipping blade of the sword at the spot high up between the bull’s shoulders.