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picador

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picador
Bullfighting a horseman who pricks the bull with a lance in the early stages of a fight to goad and weaken it


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The bull makes a rush, with murder in his eye, but a picador meets him with a spear-thrust in the shoulder.
The bull of the Asturias who has been but little moved by the attacks of the picador grows irritated with the dogs and banderilleras.
 
 
 
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