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Meanings of bullfight in English

Portuguese
tourada
Catalan
cursa de braus
Spanish
corrida de toros

A Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators.

        tourada
        Usage of bullfight in English
        1
        She was also annoyed to learn that the bullfight season was over.
        The new yorker
        2
        It closes with an unsparing description of a bullfight in Mérida, Mexico.
        The Guardian
        3
        And as in a bullfight, the result was never in question.
        The Irish Times
        4
        For real sport, Señor Merriwell, you should see a Mexican bullfight.
        Frank Merriwell's Pursuit; Or, How to Win
        5
        He thought suddenly of his bullfight in Seville, twenty-five years before.
        Bertram Cope's Year
        6
        We could drink some wine, eat some paella, watch a bullfight or two.
        Blind willow, sleeping woman
        7
        Would you care to have a small bet with me on to-morrow's bullfight?
        The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
        8
        The pear wore a flat black sombrero, like the matador's at the bullfight.
        Delta girls
        9
        He flashed after us, with the rapid motions of a bullfight in the movies.
        Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
        10
        She did water colors, and she was a bullfight fan.
        Nothing in her way
        11
        Maybe we can even stage a bullfight in the arena?
        Paul of dune
        12
        Escamillo bides his time, invites them to the approaching bullfight at Seville, and departs.
        The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Compose...
        13
        The noise is tremendous, like that at a bullfight and for the same reason.
        The good son: a novel
        14
        Joe Grassie has been gettin' up a bullfight and a kind of a show.
        The Eagle's Heart
        15
        The orchestra struck up a raucous march as though they were playing at a bullfight.
        The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
        16
        Bullfought is the past tense of the verb bullfight.
        The outsiders
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        Bullfight through the time