Bullfighting in Andalucia.
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Toro |
Bull |
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Plaza de toros
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Bullring
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Corrida
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Bullfight
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Matador
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Star Bullfighter
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Torero
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Bullfighter (general term applicable to any person who engages
in the ultimate death of the bull)
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Picador
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Lancer (on horseback)
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Banderillero
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Bullfighter (on foot) who inserts barbed
wooden decorated sticks into the bull´s neck muscle
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Traje de luces
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Suit of lights (colourful sequinned suit worn by bullfighters)
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Veronica
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A type of pass whereby the cape is drawn
over the bull´s head while the man holds a posture.
(There are many terms used for defining moves, which makes
reading an article in the press on bullfighting rather esoteric)
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Novillos
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A novice bullfighter is called a novillero and fights not
in a corrida, but in a novillada with young bulls (novillos)
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