coletan.
/kəˈleɪtə/ A pigtail, worn by a bullfighter as a mark of his profession.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > tresses or plaits > worn by a bullfighter
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1928 E. Hemingway Men without Women 61 They were going to cut off his coleta..his pigtail.
1928 Daily Tel. 19 July 11/2 One of Spain's ‘star’ matadors..has bidden farewell to the arena... To-day as a sign of his decision he had his coleta (‘pig-tail’) bobbed.
1962 J. Stewart tr. J. Cousseau Death of Miss Cunningham 44 The coleta exposed the torero's queue of hair.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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