capeador

American  

[kah-pee-uh-dawr, kah-pe-ah-thawr] / ˌkɑ pi əˈdɔr, kɑ pɛ ɑˈðɔr /

noun

capeadors, plural capeadores plural

1. a person who assists a matador by harassing or distracting the bull with a red cape, or capa.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• capeadores
  plural
• capeadors
  plural

Etymology

Origin of capeador

1905–10; < Spanish, equivalent to cape ( ar ) to bait with a cape (verbal derivative of capa cape ¹ ) + -ador -ator

Example Sentences

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But first a bugle call rang out, and into the ring came the mounted capeador.

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

"There is your mounted capeador, your brave toreador," she says to Luis, "and they are all alike."

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

Was not the mounted capeador Juan Roca a brother of Luis Roca, the hat dealer?

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

The capeadores, the cloak-bearers, come fluttering around and divert the bull from his prostrate victims.

From Castilian Days by Hay, John

And then into the ring came the capeadors on foot.

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

Standing now four feet away Torellas, to blind the charging bull as the capeadors had done, had to step close in.

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

So far it was clever, neat work on the part of the capeadors, but nothing wonderful, nothing to match Juan's work on the horse.

From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)