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Tauromachy

Tauromachy \Tau*rom"a*chy\, n. [Gr. tayromachi`a; tay^ros bull + ma`chh fight.] Bullfighting.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tauromachy

"bull-fighting," 1830, from Greek tauromakhia; see Taurus + -machy.

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tauromachy

n. bullfighting (in classical times)

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Spain, and his natural grace and superb reflexes had caused some of the privileged observers to proclaim perhaps extravagantly that he was a born phenomenon whose refusal to make it a career would be a disaster through which tauromachy would continue irreparably impoverished.