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tauromachy|tɔːˈrɒməkɪ|
Also sometimes in foreign forms.
[ad. Gr. ταυροµαχία, f. ταῦρος bull + µάχη fighting (see -machy): so F. tauromachie.]
The practice or custom of bull-fighting; also (with a and pl.) a bull-fight.
1846Thackeray Cornhill to Cairo ii, It was not a real Spanish tauromachy—only a theatrical combat. 1846Times 17 June 5/6 The art of tauromachy has just sustained an irreparable loss by the death of Montes, the Spanish matador. 1892Cornh. Mag. Sept. 292 In the interests of civilisation and progress, it declares against the tauromachies. 1902Munsey's Mag. XXVI. 524/2 Under the Bourbons, it [bull-fighting] went out of royal fashion, though it was still practised, and it was restored by Ferdinand VII, who established a college of tauromachy. [1910Encycl. Brit. IV. 789/1 Bull-fighting, the national Spanish sport. The Spanish name is tauromaquia.] 1923W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. xi. 147 After public renunciation of tauromachie, gracefully made among a circle of Spanish friends. 1967McCormick & Mascareñas Compl. Aficionado ii. 35 One has only..to read certain of the early manuals of tauromachia..to realize that..a good deal has been gained through modern changes. 1969C. Irving Fake! (1970) viii. 99 He was to do over two hundred of them [sc. drawings], the best of which are probably in the Picasso Tauromachia series.
So tauromachian |-ˈmeɪkɪən|, tauromachic |-ˈmækɪk| [F. tauromachique] adjs., of or pertaining to tauromachy; tauroˈmachics [-ic 2], the business of bullfighting.
1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 146 A tendency to gitanesque and tauro-machian slang. 1846― Gatherings fr. Spain (1906) 233 The beloved monarch shut up the lecture rooms forthwith, opening..by way of compensation, a tauromachian university. 1887Daily Tel. 17 June (Cassell), The matador is forbidden by the laws of tauromachic etiquette to attack the bull. 1894Westm. Gaz. 13 June 2/1 There are about fifteen special tauromachic newspapers..in France. 1934F. M. Ford Let. 14 Sept. (1965) 234, I don't know why I should deluge you with..tauromachics. |