One of the pair of horsemen in a Spanish bullfight.
1 He flinches with the pain, and the picador skips out of danger.
2 Luckily the picador left for Malaga, and I set about my smuggling.
3 A burst of applause for the picador , hisses for the bull.
4 The monos, in their red shirts, running out to drag the picador clear.
5 The picador , now on his feet, swearing and flopping his arms.
6 When she returned, she spoke much of a very skilful picador , named Lucas.
7 Anything more unutterably cowardly and despicably mean than the picador can hardly be imagined.
8 He was in his picador clothes, without his hat.
9 One picador took his stand directly below us.
10 Hernandez ran sideways, taking the bull out and away with the cape, toward the other picador .
11 They sat silent, Manuel watching the picador 's face.
12 Zurito, the picador , looked at Manuel's white face.
13 Manuel looked down at the picador 's enormous hands folding the paper to put away in his pocket.
14 It only takes one good picador .
15 He was the best picador living.
16 The bull makes a rush, with murder in his eye, but a picador meets him with a spear-thrust in the shoulder.
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