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Definition of Novillada
1. Noun. A bullfight in which the bulls are less than four years old.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Novillada
Literary usage of Novillada
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... dressed grotesquely stand up like ninepins, within a few feet of each other,
and a frisky novillada, or young bull, was let in to knock them over. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843)
"... of gold for the relief of the poor and support of the hospital, and ten more
to be spent in a novillada, or bull-bait and festival for the whole town. ..."
3. Spain, a Study of Her Life and Arts by Royall Tyler (1909)
"Except in a few great cities and in the districts were fighting bulls are bred,
no corridas, except for a rare novillada, take place out of fair-time, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"... according to the reputation o. the herd, though bulls for a novillada or
second- rate bull-fight cost far less. The breeder's liability does not end ..."
5. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"Cow between three and six years of age. novillada, sf. 1. Drove of young bulls
or bullocks. 2. Fight of young bulls or bullocks. ..."
6. Cities and Sea-coasts and Islands by Arthur Symons (1918)
"I realise it more clearly, and understand it less than ever, since I have come
from that novillada at Valencia. Winter, 1898. ..."
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