Manolete
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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One afternoon, when Manolete is around 11, he’s wandering past the bullfighting arena in Córdoba at the exact moment when matadors from all over Spain are filing in for an event.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
The one corrida Manolete went to as a child didn’t excite him in the least, and when kids at school pretended to be bulls and matadors, play-fighting with one another, Manolete kept to himself.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
Soon, Manolete was said to be worth the equivalent of $37 million in today’s dollars and to command fees equivalent to $160,000 for a single afternoon.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
“Now it had happened,” Conrad writes, “happened suddenly and irrevocably”: Manolete wanted to fight bulls.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
Then he would come close to actual weeping when he described to the class the death of Manolete which he had studied exhaustively while in Spain.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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