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n. (plural of banderilla English)
Usage examples of "banderillas".
The rays of the late evening sun slanted almost horizontally across the poster of the sad-faced Manolete and silvered the barbs of the banderillas just below.
The barbs of the banderillas (or sticks, as the Spanish say) had no silver lights on them now.
The banderillas had been replaced on the wall below the Manolete poster.
Paulus held his muleta with one hand, jiggling the cloth, and snatched out one of his barbed banderillas.
The long barbed staffs, poison-dipped banderillas, were wrapped close to the pole for Paulus to use when he needed them.
Paulus held his muleta with one hand, jiggling the cloth, and snatched out one of his barbed banderillas.
As they came together, Isabella gasped, and then the master had planted the banderillas and pirouetted away.
Head back, his square jaw thrust forward beyond the point of his nose, he resembled a beset dragon carrying banderillas in its backside.
He’s the bull, practically helpless, no chance, and the men with the banderillas and the picadors with their lances are sticking him till he bleeds, goading and hurting him, until he’s weaker and weaker, and the matador comes out and finally drives the sword in behind his neck.
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.