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Its chronology begins with the ancient practice of hunting bulls in the wild for meat and skins, then traces the hunt’s evolution as sport with the emergence of celebrity toreadors in a theater of cruelty and courage.
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
Would Brooks Robinson have ever worn sleazy tight black toreador pants?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
The result has the Orioles in all-black softball-style duds with toreador pants.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
Take the character of Escamillo, the swaggering toreador who’s been retrained as a rodeador.
—Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
But pop-up parties have begun to appear on rooftops, in basements, and at run-down cantinas like the bizarre and beautiful La Faena, decorated with dusty shadow boxes of toreadors' costumes.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
Swoon as the immortal Rudolph Valentino struts his stuff in a toreador’s jacket and trousers in this silent 1922 melodrama.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
Along the way came dancing and dueling gypsies, Don Jose wrestling like a raging bull with his feelings, and lavishly dressed Spanish ladies whirling and twirling with blue-clad toreadors.
—Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2019
Would a toreador be insulted when the bull responds to the muleta?
—Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2019
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
Would Brooks Robinson have ever worn sleazy tight black toreador pants?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
The result has the Orioles in all-black softball-style duds with toreador pants.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
Take the character of Escamillo, the swaggering toreador who’s been retrained as a rodeador.
—Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
But pop-up parties have begun to appear on rooftops, in basements, and at run-down cantinas like the bizarre and beautiful La Faena, decorated with dusty shadow boxes of toreadors' costumes.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
Swoon as the immortal Rudolph Valentino struts his stuff in a toreador’s jacket and trousers in this silent 1922 melodrama.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
Along the way came dancing and dueling gypsies, Don Jose wrestling like a raging bull with his feelings, and lavishly dressed Spanish ladies whirling and twirling with blue-clad toreadors.
—Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2019
Would a toreador be insulted when the bull responds to the muleta?
—Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2019
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“Toreador.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toreador. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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