espada
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espadas
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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
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
This is the matador's weapon of last resort, to be used when his espada fails.
From A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" by Henry W. Shoemaker
The espada must have passed through a trying novitiate in the art at the royal school of bull-fighting, after which he is given his alternativa, or licence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
When the espada finally performs his courageous feat under such conditions, he obtains such an ovation as his skill deserves.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson
Sandoval notices the short sword, "cortas espadas," as the peculiar weapon of the Spanish soldier in the twelfth century.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by William Hickling Prescott
Juancho rose from his bench, threw off his cloak, took his sword, and mingled with the motley group of toreros and chulos, banderillos and espadas.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
The processional entry, too, of the whole of the performers—picadors, capeodors, espadas, &c. &c.—is very picturesque and stately.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
The most famous espadas are all Spaniards, and they all wear the traditional dress of their calling.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by William Harbutt Dawson
These refuges were little used, however, except by the underlings, the capadores, or by capsized picadores; espadas and banderilleros disdained them.
From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson
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