torero

[ tuh-rair-oh; Spanish taw-re-raw ]

noun

, plural to·re·ros [t, uh, -, rair, -ohz, taw-, re, -, r, aws].

1. a bullfighter, especially a matador.

torero

/ tɒˈrɛərəʊ /

noun

1. a bullfighter, esp one who fights on foot

Word History and Origins

Origin of torero¹

1720–30; < Spanish, equivalent to tor ( o ) bull (< Latin taurus ) + -ero < Latin -ārius -ary

Word History and Origins

Origin of torero¹

C18: from Spanish, from Late Latin taurārius, from Latin taurus a bull

Example Sentences

He was the perfect and characteristic type of a torero, such as Spanish fancy has always imagined it.

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To their wives is due much of the making and all the keeping up of the elaborate and costly dress of the torero.

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They caused the torero to repeat it again and again, until the spotted mustang had become all of one colour.

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He was named, of course, after the famous torero described by Gautier in his "Voyage en Espagne."

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All other nations seem to take kindly to it, but torero is the Spanish for bull-fighter.

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