mounted bullfighter

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• Rejoneador — ( lancer ) is the name given to a bullfighter who fights the bull on horseback. Along with the picador , a rejoneador is the second type of mounted bullfighter in Spanish bullfighting.Classic bullfights may also exhibit a rejoneador spectacle… …   Wikipedia

• Cintrón, Conchita — ▪ Puerto Rican American bullfighter born Aug. 9, 1922, Antofagasta, Chile    American Portuguese bullfighter, who was one of the world s premier rejoneadores and the most respected matadora in bullfighting history.       The daughter of a Puerto… …   Universalium

• Álvaro Domecq y Díez — Don Álvaro Domecq y Díez (1917 2005) was born into an aristocratic Spanish sherry family in Jerez, of Cádiz, a province of Andalusia in south western Spain. He distinguished himself as a fighter pilot in the Spanish Civil War on Francisco Franco… …   Wikipedia

• rejoneador — noun A mounted bullfighter whose task is to provoke the bull …   Wiktionary

• picador —    (pih kah DOR) [Spanish: pricker] A mounted bullfighter whose role is to enrage and weaken the bull by pricking its shoulders with a lance …   Dictionary of foreign words and phrases

• picador — /ˈpɪkədɔ / (say pikuhdaw) noun a mounted bullfighter who opens a bullfight by irritating and enraging the bull by pricking it with lances, without disabling it. {Spanish, from picar prick, pierce} …  

• bullfighting — See bullfighter. * * * Spanish corrida de toros Spectacle, popular in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, in which matadors ceremonially taunt, and usually kill, bulls in an arena. Spectacles with bulls were common in ancient Crete, Thessaly, and …   Universalium

• Bullfighting — bull fighting redirects here. For the Taiwanese TV series, see Bull Fighting (TV series). For the rodeo performer, see bullfighter (rodeo). Bullfighting, Édouard Manet, 1865–1866 …   Wikipedia

• Marius Petipa — Maestro Marius Ivanovich Petipa, Premier Maître de Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. St. Petersburg, 1887. Birth name Marius Alphonse Petipa …   Wikipedia

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• Portugal — /pawr cheuh geuhl, pohr /; Port. /pawrdd too gahl /, n. a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 9,867,654; 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Cap.: Lisbon. * * * Portugal… …   Universalium