capeador

[ kah-pee-uh-dawr; Spanish kah-pe-ah-thawr ]

noun

, plural ca·pe·a·dors, Spanish ca·pe·a·do·res [kah-pe-ah-, thaw, -, r, es].

1. a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.

Word History and Origins

Origin of capeador¹

1905–10; < Spanish, equivalent to cape ( ar ) to bait with a cape (verbal derivative of capa cape ¹ ) + -ador -ator

Example Sentences

I see how one puts under the eyes of another a bit of red cloth, treating him just as a capeador treats a bull.

From Project Gutenberg

The opponent deceives him adroitly with motions of a cape, exactly again as the capeador does the bull.

From Project Gutenberg

The capeador has sprung into the passage extending between the paling and the first row of seats.

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