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Definition of Banderillas
1. banderilla [n] - See also: banderilla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banderillas
Literary usage of Banderillas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spain of the Spanish by Janie Villiers-Wardell (1909)
"The banderillas, which are handed in over the barriers when required, ...
The suerte de banderillas is one of great difficulty and of exceeding grace. ..."
2. Castilian Daysby John Hay by John Hay (1903)
"New Madrid Madrid al Fresco Cloak-Play Entrance to Bull-Ring, Madrid The Procession
banderillas Cloak-Dance ..."
3. Vamos ʹa México by Southern Pacific Company (1896)
"the animal can check his headlong speed he turns, now furious with rage, he turns,
only to find another banderillero with two more banderillas. ..."
4. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1896)
"Another way of putting in the banderillas is to run at the bull as he ...
How simultaneous the putting in of the banderillas and the jumping aside are this ..."
5. Untrodden Spain, and Her Black Country: Being Sketches of the Life and by Hugh James Rose (1875)
"When an espada wishes to put banderillas, he should never use ordinary pairs,
... It shall not be allowed to use banderillas de fuego without express orders ..."
6. Spain and Portugal: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"The banderilleros meet the bull in full charge, jump cleverly to one side as he
nears them, and stick the banderillas in his neck as he passes. ..."
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