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Definition of "novillero" [novillero]

  • A bullfighter restricted by professional rules to engaging bulls less than four years of age. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "novillero" in a sentence
  • "But the "novillero" lost his footing while facing the second bull and was knocked around the sand by the 385kg animal."
  • "But the "novillero" lost his footing while facing the second bull and was knocked around the sand by the 848-pound (385-kilogramme) animal."
  • "What comes next is the matador and he approaches with his tight-assed, pouter-pigeon walk, flaunting his coleto, the pigtail that is the professional mark of a torero who has taken his alternativa and is no longer a novillero."
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