espada
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espadas
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Or he renders her again in the preposterously unsuitable guise of an espada, a matador, posed in the bull ring: a transvestism, a play with notions of machismo, that insists on the artificiality of art.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Canedo, who is still alive, kills a! rejon —that is, he rides first as a picador, then dismounts and finishes his job as an espada.
From Time Magazine Archive
This seemed to be the most graceful feat of the day, and one requiring nearly as much nerve as that of the "espada," whose arrival a final flourish of trumpets now announced.
From On the Equator by Harry De Windt
In 1551 they had begun to exercise these functions as ministers de capa y espada, which means literally of cloak and sword.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
True, there be no Moors or French to fight, but what soldier on reddened field ever took greater odds than a lone espada takes every time he challenges a fierce Utrera bull?
From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson
The processional entry, too, of the whole of the performers—picadors, capeodors, espadas, &c. &c.—is very picturesque and stately.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
Sandoval notices the short sword, "cortas espadas," as the peculiar weapon of the Spanish soldier in the twelfth century.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by William Hickling Prescott
Twenty glittering, spangled espadas marched with elastic steps into the ring, followed by the yellow-trousered picadors on their sorry horses.
From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both
Both the Government and private individuals offer large prizes for skilful archers, who command almost as much admiration as do the famous espadas in the bull-fights of Spain.
From Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Ah, it was a pity that such a toro bravo would not have his chance to fight in some splendid corrida, where the noblest bulls of Spain must meet the most skilled of the espadas.
From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both
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