picador
English
Etymology
Noun
picador (plural picadors or picadores)
- (bullfighting) A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.
- I saw the picador lance the bull.
- 1889, Nellie Bly, Six Months In Mexico, page 42:
- The bull roars with pain, and the banderillas toss about in the lacerated flesh, from which the blood pours in crimson streams. "Poor beast! what a shame," we think, and even then the order is given for the picador to attack the bull.
Translations
a lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish picador.
Pronunciation
Noun
picador m (plural picadors)
Further reading
- “picador”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
picador m (plural picadores, feminine picadora, feminine plural picadoras)
- someone who stabs or wounds
- someone who cuts sugar-cane
- (bullfighting) picador
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