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‖ mariposa|mariˈposa|
[Sp., lit. ‘butterfly’.]
In Bullfighting, a movement in which the bullfighter draws the bull by flapping the cape behind his own back. Also fig.
1932[see farol]. 1936R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 143 If you would lepidopterize These mariposas that I fling. 1957A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia xv. 169 The bull..is attacking what looks like a giant butterfly... The butterfly is Estudiante himself, and he is doing the famous quite of the mariposa... The matador holds the cape behind him,..as he holds out his arms sideways to form the ‘wings’ with the cape... As the bull turns and goes for one wing, he drops his arm and that wing folds up. 1967McCormick & Mascareñas Compl. Aficionado iii. 92 Like all beginning novilleros, Domingo longs to learn the adornos first, the revolera, the serpentina, the mariposa with the cape. |