What is "matadors"

Usage examples of "matadors".

They were directly on the outer ring where matadors, toreros and other players in the fights stood and waited.

He felt the growing excitement of the crowd and the echo in the room grew louder with the cheers as the matadors bowed.

The matadors were heartily booed by those in the arena when their final sword thrusts into each burl's neck failed to kill and each fight became a prolonged, bloody display that had little resemblance to art or a test of bravery.

He had said little through the first three fights other than to pronounce the skills of the matadors as expert or sloppy, good or bad.

The old ones Stablemaster Yresk had shown him seemed dangerous enough -- they'd killed three matadors that Leto could remember .

He would use his shield, a trick he had learned from one of the finest matadors in the Imperium.

The old ones Stablemaster Yresk had shown him seemed dangerous enough — they'd killed three matadors that Leto could remember.

The two matadors, followed by their quadrilles, paraded across the ring toward the judge's box, to salute him in much the manner the gladiators of Rome had once called to their emperor.

It resembled all the others except for fly-specked pictures of matadors and horned dinosaurs that covered one wall.

The four of us went to his private box, where we had a few beers and watched a couple of warm-up fights, and by the time the Big Event rolled around the score was Matadors 2, Bulls 0.

Did I live nine years with three of the worst paid matadors in the world not to learn about fear and about safety?