bullbaiting
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bullbaiting
Example Sentences
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Reaching gingerly for Significance, Gorer wonders what ever happened to the aggressive Englishmen of Elizabethan and 18th century cockfighting and bullbaiting days, and decides that lusty John Bull still exists, not cowed but merely caged.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lily had read up on bulldogs and didn’t like that they had such a sad history of being used for bullbaiting and all.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
They gathered that it was a sort of bullbaiting dance.
From The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow by Crane, Laura Dent
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