espada
Americannoun
plural
espadasExample Sentences
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Un maestro con la espada se niega a matar al niño de un clan rival, y se marcha con él a una ciudad fronteriza de Estados Unidos.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2020
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
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
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 Both, Armand
They had never seen anything like it, they declared; it was most exciting, and made one shiver unpleasantly, like when the espada comes to close quarters with the infuriated brute at a bull fight.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 by Maupassant, Guy de
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