bullfight

bullfight
/bool"fuyt'/, n.
a traditional Spanish, Portuguese, or Latin American spectacle in which a bull is fought by a matador, assisted by banderilleros and picadors, in a prescribed way in an arena and is usually killed.
[1745-55; BULL1 + FIGHT]

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