toreador

plural toreadors · plural toreadores

1. bullfightingA bullfighter, especially one on horseback.

   I boiled [the beef] for three hours, and it been roasting for five hours, and I still feel like a toreador when I sticks the fork in it.

   1945 May 1, “Briefcase Bronson Is on the Loose”, in Fibber McGee and Molly, spoken by Beulah

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   Such figures formed part of some ivory model of the Bull Ring, and are meant to suggest the toreadors who loom so large in the art and the traditions of Knossos. We can imagine the associations which such young toreadors would suggest, hung in the air by fine gold chains above the back of an ivory bull, when we look at a scene painted on one of the frescoes.

   1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 21

   Synonyms: torero