bullring

[ boo l-ring ]

/ ˈbʊlˌrɪŋ /

noun

an arena for a bullfight.

Nearby words

bullous keratopathy, bullous pemphigoid, bullous urticaria, bullpen, bullpout, bullring, bullroarer, bullshit, bullshit artist, bullshot, bullsnake

Origin of bullring

First recorded in 1600–10; bull¹ + ring¹

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Examples from the Web for bullring

Miraculously, Juan Jose Padilla was back in the bullring—sí, fighting bulls—a mere five months later.
The Week’s Best Longreads: The Daily Beast Picks for October 6, 2012|David Sessions|October 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Once there were twin swimming pools, a bullring, and fifty Japanese gardeners to maintain the gardens.
The Haciendas of Mexico|Paul Alexander Bartlett
Human voices welled in a mob roar from the great open cylinder of the bullring.
Thy Rocks and Rills|Robert Ernest Gilbert
I sketched under the tropic sun, in corrals, in a bullring, under an Indian laurel; I poked through empty rooms.
The Haciendas of Mexico|Paul Alexander Bartlett

Of the two great buildings the bullring is the more notable.
Uruguay|W. H. Koebel
He recommended that they should walk orderly; but instead of that they proceeded tumultuously to the Bullring.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.|E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

British Dictionary definitions for bullring

bullring

/ (ˈbʊlˌrɪŋ) /

noun

an arena for bullfighting

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