bull feast

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bull feast (plural bull feasts)

  1. (now rare) An entertainment featuring a bull; a bull baiting; (in Spanish contexts) a bullfight.
    • 1750, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 9:
      The Commodore staid at Lisbon a week, in which time there happened two of the greatest sights that could be seen had he staid there a whole year, – a bull feast, and the procession of Corpus Christi.

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