banderillero
noun
a matador's assistant who sticks the banderillas into the bull.
banderilleros
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pluralof banderillero.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He leads his crew not of banderilleros and picadors, but of drink crafters and cooks through flawless passes to a demanding mob, his “domination of the bull.”
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
Later, while dismounted picadors are getting over the fence, the capaderos engage the bull's attention until the coming of the banderilleros.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back of them were their people, and behind the banderilleros, back in the passageway and in the open space of the corral, I saw the picadors.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Their places, therefore, had to be taken by the banderilleros.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke
In our estimation, he encounters far less risk than does the humblest of the banderilleros or chulos, who torment the bull face to face in the fullness of his physical strength and courage.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou
