banderilleron.
A bullfighter who uses banderillas. Also figurative.
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1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 772/1 The..banderilleros..plunge into his neck..a kind of darts called banderillas.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. ii. 182 The banderilleros go right up to him, holding the arrows at the shaft, and pointing the barbs at the bull.
1864 Duke of Manchester Court & Society I. 24 The ladies danced with picadors and banderilleros.
1932 E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon iii. 26 Men who..place the banderillas..are called peones or banderilleros.
1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. ii. 48 I am only a banderillero in the cuadrilla of that great matador [Wyndham Lewis].
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