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Go to this link for bullfighting video (only 4:25 in length) accompanied by readings of Hemingway's work.[|Ernest Hemingway and Bullfights in Spain]

Most of these are bullfighting terms. ** banderilla ** - 75cm darts with vari-colored paper and a barbed harpoon **banderillero** - matador's assistant who places the banderillas
 * Literature of Sport Mr. Greenhill **
 * Spanish words in Hemingway's "The Undefeated" **

** barrera ** - fence encircling the bull ring, also first row of seats ** caballo ** - horse
 * charlotada **  - comic bullfight, usually with midgets


 * cogida** - a tossing


 * coleta **  - torero's pigtail, nowadays artificial

** corrida ** - bullfight where bulls are at least four years old ** Corto y derecho ** - short and straight
 * cuadrilla **  - the matadors's team of three banderilleros and two picadors

** duro ** - 1/100 of a peseta
 * faena **  - all the work done with the muleta in the last part of the bullfight


 * matador (de toros) **  - killer (of bulls)


 * muleta **  - red flannel cloth with stick inserted, used during faena


 * novillo **  - a three year old bull fought in novilladas

** pase ** - a cape or muleta pass
 * pase de natural **  - usually refers to left-handed muleta pass without sword being used


 * pase de pecho **  - "chest pass", muleta at chest height as bull passes


 * paseo** - when the toreros parade into the ring at start of the bullfight
 * peon **  - another word for banderillero (pl. peones)

** peseta ** - unit of Spanish currency until 2002
 * picador **  - lancer whose job it is to weaken bull's neck muscles

** recorte ** - any pass where the bull is turned so sharply it comes to a stop
 * quite **  - pass to turn attention of bull or passes following a pic

** suerte ** - refers to either "luck" or an act of the bullfight
 * tercio **  - "a third", the divisions of the arena or the three acts of the fight


 * toril** - the place from where the bull comes into the ring
 * vara **  - picador's lance (Each bullfight is divided into three stages or acts called tercios; the second act is called the "tercio de varas.")


 * veronica **  - the fundamental two-handed cape pass named after St.Veronica

Most of these words come from the Taurine Glossary, version 1.1 by Tim Hardman (April 1996) with acknowledgement to "Barnaby Conrad's Encyclopedia of Bullfighting" (1962)