espada
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espadas
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Or he renders her again in the preposterously unsuitable guise of an espada, a matador, posed in the bull ring: a transvestism, a play with notions of machismo, that insists on the artificiality of art.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Canedo, who is still alive, kills a! rejon —that is, he rides first as a picador, then dismounts and finishes his job as an espada.
From Time Magazine Archive
I, as an espada, take my steel putter for the finishing touch.
From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Henry Leach
But hark! once more a bugle-call, strong and sonorous, from the judges' box; the well-known notes which call the espada to his task; the last act in the drama—for drama it is.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Martin Hume
It was well that a master like Fuentes was the espada who would deal with him, or he might deal with the espada.
From The Car of Destiny by Armand Both
The processional entry, too, of the whole of the performers—picadors, capeodors, espadas, &c. &c.—is very picturesque and stately.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
Sandoval notices the short sword, "cortas espadas," as the peculiar weapon of the Spanish soldier in the twelfth century.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by William Hickling Prescott
Juancho rose from his bench, threw off his cloak, took his sword, and mingled with the motley group of toreros and chulos, banderillos and espadas.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
The most famous espadas are all Spaniards, and they all wear the traditional dress of their calling.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson
The only gitano espadas of note are Chicorro and El Gallo.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
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