bullfight

[ bool-fahyt ]

/ ˈbʊlˌfaɪt /

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noun

a traditional Spanish, Portuguese, or Latin American spectacle in which a bull is fought by a matador, assisted by banderilleros and picadors, in a prescribed way in an arena and is usually killed.

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Origin of bullfight

First recorded in 1745–55; bull¹ + fight

OTHER WORDS FROM bullfight

bullfighting, noun

Words nearby bullfight

bullet point, bulletproof, bullet train, bullet wood, bull fiddle, bullfight, bullfighter, bullfinch, bull float, bullfrog, bull gun

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How to use bullfight in a sentence

Then we marvel at the Teatro Real opera house and proceed through the winding streets of old Madrid to the Plaza Mayor, once the site of Inquisition autos-da-fé, royal celebrations, and bullfights.
Real Madrid|Margery Resnick|April 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review
He wrote with empathy of women dying in childbirth, while penning paragraph after paragraph about bullfights.
Hemingway: Brilliant writer or avatar of toxic masculinity?|Kathi Wolfe|April 26, 2021|Washington Blade
What we remember most from his books isn’t the wars or the bullfights.
Hemingway: Brilliant writer or avatar of toxic masculinity?|Kathi Wolfe|April 26, 2021|Washington Blade
She saw her first bullfight at seven while on a family vacation in Mexico, and fell in love with the sport.
The Deaths You Missed This Year|Malcolm Jones, Jimmy So, Michael Moynihan, Caitlin Dickson|December 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Across the stadium in the northeast corner, the mass of red-colored fans of Bnei Sakhnin was like a flag at a bullfight.
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No campaign can afford a multitude of competing strategies, or row upon row of bullfight critics publicly questioning every move.
Does Barack Obama Need a Friend Like Bill Clinton?|Robert Shrum|June 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But, she added, “The bullfight is an ecosystem and, one could say, an honest one.”
Toro! Painting the Goyesque|Anthony Haden-Guest|September 30, 2010|DAILY BEAST
In the Sunday newspaper, the reporter said that the painting stayed somehow alive through the whole bullfight.
Toro! Painting the Goyesque|Anthony Haden-Guest|September 30, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He ceased to find pleasure in his nets and boar spears, in the fandango and the bullfight.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
She had forgotten that a bullfight meant that there would be blood and killing.
Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border|Annie Roe Carr
By this the whole matter had presented itself to them as an entertainment more diverting than bullfight or bear-baiting.
Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools|Various
He swallowed a tumbler of port, a wine he rarely touched; but he felt worse now than after the bullfight.
The Woman-Hater|Charles Reade
Shelton was conscious of a shiver running through the audience which reminded him of a bullfight he had seen in Spain.
The Island Pharisees|John Galsworthy

British Dictionary definitions for bullfight

bullfight

/ (ˈbʊlˌfaɪt) /

noun

a traditional Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American spectacle in which a matador, assisted by banderilleros and mounted picadors, baits and usually kills a bull in an arena

Derived forms of bullfight

bullfighter, nounbullfighting, noun

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