Crossword clues for toreador
toreador
- Corrida competitor
- Bullring VIP
- "Suit of lights" wearer
- Ring fighter
- Escamillo, e.g
- Caped evader?
- Caped fighter
- Role for Robert Merrill
- One taking the bull by the horns?
- One in a bull session?
- Occupational term popularized by "Carmen"
- Escamillo, in "Carmen"
- Carmen's boyfriend
- Bull's nemesis
- Adore rot (anag)
- "The ___ Song" ("Carmen" highlight)
- "___ Song" ("Carmen")
- Bullfighter
- Caped combatant
- Escamillo of "Carmen," e.g.
- "Carmen" figure
- Someone who fights bulls
- Escamillo, e.g.
- Opera's Escamillo, for one
- Antonio Chenel, e.g.
- Escamillo, for one
- Caped combatant ripped road asunder
- With intention of studying, or becoming bullfighter
- Fighter to study the alternative
- Fighter ran with a stick raised
- Reissued order to a fighter in the ring
- Bullring figure
- Mounted bullfighter
- Corrida star
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toreador \To"re*a*dor`\, n. [Sp., fr. torear to fight bulls, fr.L. taurus a bull.] A bullfighter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bullfighter on horseback" (as opposed to a torero, who kills on foot), 1610s, from Spanish toreador, from torear "to participate in a bullfight," from toro "bull," from Latin taurus (see Taurus).\n\nA toreador is, or rather was, a gentleman who killed bulls for his own amusement on horseback and with the spear. He was a sportsman, and his sport was as manly and respectable as pig-sticking. A professional fighter who performs in a ring and for money is a torero.
["Saturday Review," Jan. 22, 1887]
Wiktionary
n. (context bullfighting English) A bullfighter.
WordNet
n. someone who fights bulls [syn: bullfighter]
Wikipedia
Toreador may refer to:
- Torero or bullfighter
- The Toreador, a musical comedy
- The " Toreador Song" from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen
- The Daily Toreador, the student newspaper of Texas Tech University
- The Hallucinogenic Toreador is the name of a Salvador Dalí painting
- "Toreador I" and "Toreador II", songs made by Apocalyptica
- "Toreador", a song by Band of Skulls on their 2014 album Himalayan (album)
- The mascot for Boone High School in Boone, Iowa, U.S.
- Toreador (World of Darkness), a fictional clan of vampires in Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages
- The mascot for Monterey High School in Monterey, California, U.S.
- adiosToreador, the username for Tavros Nitram, a fictional character in the web comic Homestuck
Usage examples of "toreador".
Aarons who, while waiting for his nurse, was pacing the room in his own accompaniment, pianissimo, of the Toreador Song from Carmen.
From Six Mile Point, Flathouse, Nine Mile Stone follow the footpeople with knotty sticks, hayforks, salmongaffs, lassos, flockmasters with stockwhips, bearbaiters with tomtoms, toreadors with bullswords, greynegroes waving torches.
Prominent Rancher Escapes Death From Savage Champion Bull Bracero Plays Toreador!
She grudged the money for the costume-hire, but when Ripon called for her, not very happily disguised as a toreador, she was ready in an outfit which included a large panniered skirt and a tricorne hat, which the costumier called a Venetian Domino.
This seems to be a suitable costume for bodyguards, though it lacks the dazzle of low-cut toreador pants, halter tops, and navel opals.
On an impulse, I put on the best I had in my tiny wardrobe—my black velvet toreador pants with the rather indecent gold zip down the seat, itself most unchastely tight, and, not bothering with a bra, my golden thread Camelot sweater with the wide floppy turtleneck.