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Or, banderillas can be made up to two days ahead and kept covered in the refrigerator.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 6, 2018

Using thin skewers or long toothpicks, assemble 16 banderillas, threading 1 cheese cube, 1 quail egg, 1 cornichon, 1 pickled onion, and 1 piquillo strip on each.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 6, 2018

As far as Kantner’s volatile sensibilities were concerned, blue uniforms were like a flaring red cape to a thrice-gored bull still smarting from the banderillas.

From Time • Jun. 12, 2015

The placing of banderillas by special Portuguese horsemen was a beautiful exhibition.''

From Time Magazine Archive

To stimulate them now, the dogs or the banderillas de fuego, both alien to true tauromachy, would have to be called in.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus