Definition of "matadore" []

• Dated form of matador. (noun)

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• "All games of dominoes, except matadore, are based on the principle of following suit or matching."
• "[Page 86] or the matadore a slightly armed gladiator facing his martyrdom, and all the rest of the obscure yet vivid associations of an historic survival, had carried me beyond the endurance of any of the rest of the party."
• ""Yes," I replied, "when you set down goat's meat for mutton, and gave me strong beef I had seen killed by the matadore in the bull-ring the day before.""