picador in English

noun
1
a bullfighter on horseback who pricks the bull with a lance to weaken it and goad it.
From that time, it began to follow a particular sequence of events: the entrance of the bull, the picador , the banderilleros, and finally the matador (bullfighter).

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1. Akin (New York: Little Brown; Toronto: HarperCollins Canada; London: Picador, 2019).

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3. Synonyms for Banderillero include bullfighter, picador, toreador, torero, capeador, matador, tauridor and tauromachian

4. ‘From that time, it began to follow a particular sequence of events: the entrance of the bull, the picador, the Banderilleros…

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6. It was reissued with a new afterword in 2008 and again in 2016 as a Picador Classic, with a further afterword and a new introduction by Simon Callow.

7. Once I was sitting in the bullring in Sevilla with students observing the bull flipping over on its side the heavily padded horse and its picador, the Banderilleros scrambling to save the man.