Harper Lee Gillete
American matador
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Harper Lee Gillete was an American matador who performed in Mexico. A matador is the principal bullfighter who has the main role in a bullfight and kills the bull. Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries, involving a bullfighter and a bull in a sand arena. While most matadors are men, women have also participated in bullfighting for centuries. Gillete received his alternativa, the ceremony marking a novice as a full matador, in Mexico in 1910, but he never fought in Spain.123
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