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bullring

n. (context bullfighting English) The area in which a bullfight takes place.

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bullring

n. a stadium where bullfights take place

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Bullring

A bullring is an arena where bullfighting is performed. Bullrings are often associated with Spain, but they can also be found in neighboring countries and the New World. Bullrings are often historic and culturally significant centres that bear many structural similarities to the Roman amphitheatre.

Usage examples of "bullring".

And if life in the bullring had taught her anything, it had taught her that nothing worthwhile came without pain.

Her world of the bullring was so remote from what Annubi was describing, never once did she receive anything but a most vague impression of fighting far away.

The town of Highland Park clung to the jutting land, and the Highland Bullring appeared as a white dot more than four miles from where Catriona and Stonecypher stood.

Same stock my grandfather used to sell Boon Bullring before the water.

If that bull's not the bravest ever fought in Highland Bullring, I give you double-money-back.

Thousands of floral bouquets harvested from the fields and lowlands had been placed about the bullring -- an unsubtle hint that the Duke liked the people to strew the ground with blossoms each time he dispatched a bull.

Even from up here he could smell the dust and old blood in the bullring, the packed bodies of the populace, the stone of the pillars and benches.

Seeing the danger, the warrior Mentat had instantly dropped all pretense of protocol in the bullring and leaped forth single-handedly to attack and dispatch the creature.

In the past, House Richese had aided Harkonnen-inspired plots, including the assassination of Duke Paulus Atreides in the bullring, but the allies often disagreed on priorities.

Duke Paulus had died in the bullring because Hawat hadn't watched closely enough.

Thousands of floral bouquets harvested from the fields and lowlands had been placed about the bullring — an unsubtle hint that the Duke liked the people to strew the ground with blossoms each time he dispatched a bull.

Most of them had spent time in the bleachers of the bullrings, and they shouted the ancient cry as the cloth revealed the twin fieldpieces.

Brian understood now that it was this unsought heroism, not the tinsel glory of either politics or bullrings, that was the truest courage and the deepest virtue.

Exception is weekly trips to observe bulls bred on the ranch at bullrings in Baja.

Barbosa there used to meet him most afternoons in the bullrings in Spain.