banderilla

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A person holds a pair of banderillas-decorative, barbed sticks covered in white paper-over a bullring barrier, with spectators watching in the background.

A banderillero in traditional costume thrusts two banderillas into the shoulders of a charging bull in a sandy bullring in Avila, Spain.

Bullfighting poster depicting the placing of banderillas, by Carlos Ruano Llopis, 1917.

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bullfighting
Performers
…place the barbed darts (banderillas) into the bull in the second act; and of course the matadors, who work the bull and eventually kill it in the bullfight’s final act. Six bulls are usually killed during each corrida; three matadors, whose cuadrillas (team of assistants) consist of two or…
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…place the barbed darts (banderillas) into the bull in the second act; and of course the matadors, who work the bull and eventually kill it in the bullfight’s final act. Six bulls are usually killed during each corrida; three matadors, whose cuadrillas (team of assistants) consist of two or…
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rejoneo
… (“punishing rejones”) and then the banderillas (barbed darts) in the shoulders and neck of the animal. This is similar to the performance of the picadors in a conventional bullfight, but, unlike the heavily protected picador’s horse, the rejoneador’s horse wears no padding.
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… (“punishing rejones”) and then the banderillas (barbed darts) in the shoulders and neck of the animal. This is similar to the performance of the picadors in a conventional bullfight, but, unlike the heavily protected picador’s horse, the rejoneador’s horse wears no padding.
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