Crossword-Solution: BANDERILLAS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| BULLFIGHTING sticks decorated with colored/coloured paper | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
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greedy person
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Sentences with BANDERILLAS (5)
Indeed, when one considers the serious dissensions then existing between the quartier-general and the palace, it becomes clear that such jests must have had upon the court the effect of the banderillas which, in a bull-fight, by a refinement of cruelty, are stuck in the quivering flesh of the baited bull, doomed from the start, and teased to the bitter end.
One of them enacted the part of a _torero_ at a bull-fight, stamping round first in a green satin cloak which she then waved before a man’s felt hat thrown on the ground to represent the bull hemmed about with _banderillas_ stuck quivering into the floor.
When the banderillas are all planted, and the bugles sound for the third time, the matador, the espada, the sword, steps forward with a modest consciousness of distinguished merit, and makes a brief speech to the corregidor, offering in honor of the good city of Madrid to kill the bull.
Should the animal prove of a cowardly nature and refuse to attack repeatedly, _banderillas de fuego_ (fire) are used.
The trumpet again sounded the signal for the second part of the combat, and forthwith the _chulos_ advanced nimbly with their _banderillas_, each striving to fix his weapon in the neck of the animal, as in their hazardous course he passed under their extended arms.