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plaza de toros

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[plah-sah the taw-raws, plah-thah, plah-zuh dey tawr-ohs, tohr-, plaz-uh] / ˈplɑ sɑ ðɛ ˈtɔ rɔs, ˈplɑ θɑ, ˈplɑ zə deɪ ˈtɔr oʊs, ˈtoʊr-, ˈplæz ə /

noun

Spanish.
  • plazas de toros
    plural
  1. a bullring.


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Outside the plaza de toros, her mother threw the ears in the gutter.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Sunday a bull-fight was perpetrated in the plaza de toros facing the station.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson

The house inside is handsome, with a chapel and a patio, which is occasionally used as a plaza de toros.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)

There are, besides, three theatres, an amphitheatre for bull fights, plaza de toros, and several public promenades, such as the Alameda and the Paseo Nuevo; In Turnbull's "Travels in Cuba," published by Longman & Co.,

From Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Porter, Rufus

To find a plaza de toros here in the north was disconcerting.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle

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