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bullfighting
bullfighting National sport of Spain and also popular in Latin America and s France. Classically, there are six bulls and three matadors, who are assigned two bulls each. Each matador has five assistants – two picadors (mounted on armoured horses) and three peones or banderilleros. A bullfight starts when the picadors stab the bull to weaken it. The peones then plant banderillas (barbed sticks) on the withers of the bull. The matador makes several passes with his red cape (muleta) before attempting to kill the bull by thrusting a sword between its shoulder blades. In Spain, bullfighting is regarded as an art, to many others worldwide it is a cruel spectacle.
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bullfight
bull·fight / ˈboŏlˌfīt/ • n. a public spectacle, particularly in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, at which a bull is baited in a highly stylized manner and then usually killed. DERIVATIVES: bull·fight·er n. |
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bullring
bull·ring / ˈboŏlˌring/ • n. an arena where bullfights are held. |
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"bullring." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bullring." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-bullring.html "bullring." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-bullring.html |
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bullfight
bullfight
•graphite • prizefight • dogfight
•cockfight • neophyte • saprophyte
•bullfight • gunfight • firefight
•gesundheit • Fahrenheit • malachite
•blatherskite
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"bullfight." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bullfight." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bullfight.html "bullfight." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bullfight.html |
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bullfighter
bullfighter
•all-nighter, biter, blighter, fighter, igniter, inciter, indicter, inviter, lighter, mitre (US miter), overnighter, reciter, righter, sighter, smiter, writer
•shyster • rhymester • backbiter
•expediter • prizefighter • dogfighter
•bullfighter • gunfighter • lamplighter
•highlighter • downlighter
•moonlighter • uplighter • firelighter
•screenwriter • scriptwriter
•copywriter • signwriter • typewriter
•songwriter • ghostwriter
•underwriter
•blotter, cotta, cottar, dotter, gotta, hotter, jotter, knotter, otter, pelota, plotter, potter, ricotta, rotter, spotter, squatter, terracotta, totter, trotter
•crofter
•concocter, doctor, proctor
•Volta • prompter • wanter
•adopter, dioptre
•Costa, coster, defroster, foster, Gloucester, impostor, paternoster, roster
•lobster, mobster
•oxter • monster • songster
•witchdoctor • helicopter
•teleprompter • globetrotter
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"bullfighter." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bullfighter." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bullfighter.html "bullfighter." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bullfighter.html |
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bullfighting
bullfighting
•matting • exacting
•Banting, ranting
•parting
•enchanting, planting
•everlasting, fasting, lasting
•narrowcasting
•letting, setting, wetting
•self-respecting, self-selecting, unreflecting, unsuspecting
•tempting
•unconsenting, unrelenting
•excepting
•arresting, unprotesting, unresting, westing
•bloodletting • trendsetting
•pace-setting • typesetting
•photosetting
•grating, plating, rating, slating, uprating, weighting
•painting
•pasting, tasting
•undeviating • self-perpetuating
•unaccommodating • self-deprecating
•suffocating • self-regulating
•undiscriminating • underpainting
•unhesitating
•beating, fleeting, greeting, Keating, meeting, self-defeating, sweeting
•easting
•fitting, sitting, unbefitting, unremitting, witting
•printing, unstinting
•listing, twisting, unresisting
•shopfitting • marketing
•telemarketing • pickpocketing
•weightlifting • side-splitting
•carpeting • trumpeting
•uninteresting • visiting
•backlighting, lighting, self-righting, sighting, unexciting, uninviting, whiting, writing
•infighting • prizefighting
•dogfighting • bullfighting
•handwriting • screenwriting
•scriptwriting • copywriting
•skywriting • signwriting
•typewriting • songwriting • knotting
•prompting
•costing, frosting
•self-supporting, unsporting
•malting, salting
•ripsnorting • outing
•accounting, mounting
•coating
•Boulting, revolting
•posting, roasting
•billposting • disappointing
•shooting, suiting, Tooting
•sharpshooting • footing
•off-putting
•cutting, Nutting
•bunting
•disgusting, self-adjusting, trusting
•blockbusting • linocutting
•woodcutting • disquieting
•disconcerting, shirting, skirting
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"bullfighting." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bullfighting." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bullfighting.html "bullfighting." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bullfighting.html |
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bullring
bullring
•handspring • hamstring • herring
•headspring • wellspring
•airing, ballbearing, bearing, Behring, Bering, caring, daring, fairing, hardwearing, pairing, paring, raring, sparing, Waring, wearing
•talebearing • childbearing
•wayfaring • seafaring • cheeseparing
•time-sharing • mainspring • keyring
•gee-string • watch spring • offspring
•boring, flooring, Goring, riproaring, roaring, scoring, shoring
•drawstring • goalscoring
•outpouring • bowstring • shoestring
•bullring
•auctioneering, clearing, earring, electioneering, engineering, gearing, orienteering, privateering, shearing
•God-fearing • puppeteering
•firing, retiring, uninspiring, untiring, wiring
•during, mooring, reassuring, Turing
•posturing • restructuring
•meandering • rendering
•pondering, wandering
•ordering • maundering
•plundering, thundering, wondering
•offering • suffering • fingering
•scaremongering • hankering
•flickering, Pickering
•tinkering • hammering • glimmering
•unmurmuring • tampering
•whimpering • whispering
•smattering, unflattering
•earthshattering • schoolmastering
•Kettering • self-catering • wittering
•quartering, watering
•faltering • roistering • muttering
•gathering • woolgathering
•blithering
•flavouring (US flavoring), unwavering
•quivering
•manoeuvring (US maneuvering)
•covering • wallcovering
•Goering, stirring, unerring
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"bullring." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bullring." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bullring.html "bullring." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bullring.html |
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