Manolete
Americannoun
noun
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“Now it had happened,” Conrad writes, “happened suddenly and irrevocably”: Manolete wanted to fight bulls.
From New York Times • May 3, 2022
He was known as Manolete and is almost invariably described as the best bullfighter of the 1940s and among the greatest of all time.
From New York Times • May 3, 2022
Asked by a reporter why he didn’t smile more, Manolete replied, “This business of the bulls is a very serious thing.”
From New York Times • May 3, 2022
It was true: Manolete’s grandfather and two of his uncles had been bullfighters, and so had his father, who also fought under the name Manolete.
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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