Meanings
nounpicador (plural picadors or picadores)
plural picadors · plural picadores
- bullfightingA lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.
I saw the picador lance the bull.
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The bull roars with pain, and the banderillas toss about in the lacerated flesh, from which the blood pours in crimson streams. "Poor beast! what a shame," we think, and even then the order is given for the picador to attack the bull.
1889, Nellie Bly, Six Months In Mexico, page 42
Origin
- Spanishpicador
- Spanishpicador
- Englishpicador
Borrowed from Spanish picador (“stinger”).
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Catalan picador
- picadora lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
Czech pikador
- pikadora lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
French picador
- picadora lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
German Picador, Pikador
- Picadora lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
- Pikadora lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
Polish pikador
- pikadora lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
Russian пикадо́р
- пикадо́р (pikadór)a lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
Spanish picador
- picadora lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
Swedish picador, pikador
- picadora lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
- pikadora lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador
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APA
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Chicago
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