banderilla
noun
an ornamented dart with barbs used by banderilleros for sticking into the neck or shoulder of the bull.
banderillas
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pluralof banderilla.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Or, banderillas can be made up to two days ahead and kept covered in the refrigerator.
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
Reported by Maureen Dowd/New York and Steven Holmes/ Los Angeles It was a quiet Sunday as the picadors at all three networks prepared to implant their banderillas in the hides of their talk-show guests.
From Time Magazine Archive
Always he had faced the enemy; and now he rushed to play with his horns for the glittering banderillas which waited for his shoulders.
From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both
