With

• has hombros: left the matador on the shoulders his subordinates or admirors after an exceptional combat
• has carried gayola: suerte which consists in awaiting the entry of the bull in the arena, only knelt in front of the door of the Toril
• Abrivado: tradition taurine of Provence and Languedocien, consisting in releasing bulls in the closed streets of a city or a village.
• Adorno (ornament): detail whose matador decorates his faena
• Afeitado: defraud which consists with épointer the end of the horns of the Toro of lidia in order to decrease the dangerosity of its loads
• Afición has los toros: passion, taste of the amateur (aficionado) of the bullfights
• Aficionado: amateur, impassioned, expert of bullfight. The spectators in two categories are traditionally classified: the toreristas , primarily attracted by the art of the matador, and the toristas , by the spectacle of the bull
• Aguante: faculty of certain bullfighters to adapt perfectly the rate/rhythm of their faena to that of the bull
• Alguazil: police officer of the arena, charged to make apply the payment taurin, under the Alternative authority of the president
• : small ceremony during a bullfight during which a Novillero becomes Matador of toros
• Añojo: young one year old bull
• Apartado: operation which makes following the drawing lot (Sorteo), and which consists in separating the bulls from/to each other and to one by one place them in a Chiquero
• Apoderado: manager. Represent the matador and manages his businesses
• Apodo: pseudonym or nickname of a matador
• Appuntillar: use of the puntilla or cachete , blade of about fifteen centimetres which make it possible to complete the animal with ground after the Estocade
• Arène: building in which are held the bullfights
• Arenero: member of the personnel of the arena charged to give the track in state after each bull
• Arrastre: train of mules which trail out of the track the skin of the bull
• Aviso: warning given by the president to the matador when the faena exceeds the prescribed time

B

• Banderillas: sticks decorated with papers of color and provided with harpoons
• Banderillero: Peón charged to pose the banderillas
• Bandido: form to release bulls analog with the Encierro
• Bajonazo: thrust which the bullfighter carries out too low
• Barrera: girdle of wood which separates the track (Ruedo) from the corridor (Callejón). Also indicate the first rank of the steps.
• Becerro: young bull of less than three years
• Cheer (étymologiquement: savage): adjective qualifying a bull full with bravery, offensive instinct
• Bravery: offensive instinct of the bull, which charges lengthily, the low head. It appears most clearly under the spade. The bull cheer (courageous) is opposed to the manso .
• Bouvine (area of): country where one raises the wild bulls of Spanish type or camarguais
• Brindis: gesture of dedication by which the matador offers to the death of the bull to the public, with a person, a group, an entity or a death
• Bronca: noisy demonstration of the public as a sign of disapproval or dissatisfaction against the matador, to the stockbreeder, the presidency or the organizers of the race
• Burladero: shelters of boards, posed in front of the barriers which surround the Ruedo

C

• Cabestros: drawn up oxen used to accompany the toros by lidia to the arenas the day of the bullfight, when the Corral is not contiguous
• Callejón: circular corridor separating the barrier (will bar) steps
• Camisa: shirt constitutive of the bullfighter's costume
• Caparaçon (in Spanish: peto ): protection of the horse of picador, used since 1928
• Capotazo: passes from hood carried out by the bullfighter to attract or disorientate the bull
• Capote: wrap of the bullfighter. It is “of paseo” if it is of embroidered silk and is used only for the unproductive procession of the beginning. It is “of brega”, of work, if it is of pink silk and yellow percale, and is used to the matador in the first two phases (Tercio S) of the bullfight and for his peones during all the race (different from the Muleta)
• Cartel: post announcing the program of a bullfight. Indicate also the plate of high-speed motorboats of a race, men and fawn-coloured
• Caste: synonym of race. A bull is known as “of caste” when it has all physical qualities and morals of the race
• Castoreño: felt hat originally of beaver of the picador
• Chaleco: waistcoat constitutive of the bullfighter's costume. Also indicate the waistcoat of the Gaúcho S in Latin America
• Chaquetilla: jacket constitutive of the bullfighter's costume
• Chief of lidia: oldest of the three matadors of a bullfight
• Chiquero: compartment constitutive of the Toril, in which the bulls are locked up before the beginning of the bullfight
• ISCED (of citar : to call): gesture of call sometimes accompanied by the voice, by which the bullfighter draws the attention of the bull and causes his load on the lure
• Clarines: ringing of the bugles
• Cogida (of coger : to take): fixing of the bullfighter by the horns of the bull, that those penetrate or not its flesh. If it is the case, it is about a cornada
• Coleta: match hair which the bullfighters let push behind the head in distinctive sign of their profession. Today false. to cut the coleta means to stop the occupation of bullfighter.
• Cornada: encornade, blow of horn of the bull with penetration in the flesh of the bullfighter
• Race camarguaise: play taurin without setting with dead
• Race of recortadores: form bullfight practiced primarily in the north of Spain
• Corral: court open and contiguous to the arenas where the bulls are parked the days which precede the race
• Corrida: generic term of the Spanish bullfightings. Also get busy to indicate the engagements with adult bulls, in opposition to the Novillada S.
• Corrida of rejón: of bullfight in which the bull is fought by a rider, the rejoneador
• Course landaise: Gascon tauromachic tradition without setting with dead
• Portuguese Race: form bullfight with horse
• Cruz (cross): exiguous not located between the shoulder and the backbone, aimed by the matador to kill the bull of its sword
• Cuadrilla: together assistants of the matador, Banderillero S and Picador S

D

• Descabello : death-blow given to the bull using the verdugo, special sword
• Despejo (boxroom): evacuation of the arena or the plublic place by the Alguazil S before releasing it bull
• Desplante (insolence, provocation): gesture of challenge carried out by the bullfighter in front of the bull, at the end of a series of master keys or faena
• Currency: together of ribbons to the colors of the stockbreeder whom one plants on the back of the bull at his exit of the chiquero
• Diestro (main): sometimes used to appoint the matador
• Duende (imp, merry spirit): qualify the state of inspiration, the genius of the bullfighter “artist”, but also of the singers and dancers of Flamenco. The term especially gets busy in Andalusia (see Andalusian Musique)

E

• Hastened: direction of the arena
• Encierro (action to lock up): put at the toril, sometimes preceded to release bulls on a closed course. Can also indicate the batch of bulls intended for the bullfight
• Eral: young bull of more than one year and less than two years
• Escalafón: annual classification of the matadors
• Espantada: escape of the bullfighter in front of the bull
• Espontaneado: foreign individual with the bullfight which jumps in track to face the bull
• Estocade: blow of sword by which the matador puts the bull at dead

F

• Faena (work): third tercio, during which the matador faces the bull with Muleta and sword
• Faja: broad belt out of silk and in theory of the same color as the pañoleta, constitutive of the bullfighter's costume. Also indicate the belt of the Gaúcho S in Latin America
• Farpa: left banderilla posed to the first tercio of a Corrida of rejón. Its handle is much longer than that of the banderillas used in the bullfight with foot (approximately 1,60 meter against approximately 80 cm)
• Feria: celebrates organized in cities of the south of France and in Spain, with daily bullfights
• Forcado: member of a team carrying out the pega in a Portuguese bullfight

G

• Ganadería : breeding from which the toros come from lidia
• Ganadero: stockbreeder of bulls
• Garrocha: wood pole used in a Bullfight of rejón and in lépreuve of the Tienta
• Genio: sign defensive instinct of the bull, which charges with hesitation, by raising the head

H

• Bullfighter's costume: costume of the bullfighters
• Hierro (iron): distinctive mark of the breeding which the bull carries to the right thigh

I

• Islero : bull which encorna mortally the bullfighter Manolete

J

K

L

• Lure: Muleta or wraps (hoods)
• Lidia: fights, together meetings between a bull and the bullfighters. It is composed of three tercios, i.e. three acts.

M

• Mano has mano: bullfight during which two matadors fight six bulls
• Mansedumbre: docility of the bull manso
• Manso: adjective qualifying a bull without bravery, of little caste and who refuses the combat. Be opposed to the bull cheer
• Matador: central figure of the Bullfight, chief of the Cuadrilla, carrying out the faena and charged to kill the bull
• Mayoral: intendant or manager of the ganadero (stockbreeder of bulls). He directs the vaqueros and accompanies the bulls by the breeding to the arenas. He represents the ganadero with the races.
• Mediae: two pairs of superimposed bottoms constitutive of the bullfighter's costume. The first are out of white cotton, the pink silk seconds of color
• Miura: Ganadería raising most prestigious toros of lidia
• Monosabio: member of the personnel of the arena, charged to help the picador and the horse tracks
• Montera of it: hat in astrakhan, cap of the matador
• Morillo: high blow of the bull
• Mozo of espadas (“servant of swords”): assistant of the matador, during and apart from the combat
• Muleta: delude out of red serge cloth used by the matador during the Faena
• Mulillero: member of the personnel of the arena in load of the Arrastre
• Mundillo: medium of the bullfighting, with all that it counts of ganaderos, apoderados, journalists taurins, bullfighters etc

NR

• Novillada : fights opponent of young bulls (novillos) to young bullfighters (novilleros)
• Novillero: matador beginning, not having received the alternative
• Novillo yet: young old bull from two to three years (syn. utrero), lidié in the novilladas

O

• ¡ Olé ! : interjection of the public, as a sign of encouragement of the matador

P

• Palo: stick on which the muleta
• Pañoleta is assembled: silk tie of bright color, constitutive of the bullfighter's costume
• Paseo: ravelled opening of a bullfight or novillada
• Master key: for a bullfighter with foot, action to call the bull on a lure, hoods or muleta, to make it run and pass along its body
• Pega: last act of the Portuguese Bullfight, during which the forcados are clutched with the bull to renew it with the toril
• Pelea (combat): service of the bull
• Peña is said: group friends sharing the passion of the bullfighting
• Peón: bullfighter subordinate with foot, charged to assist the matador
• Picador (synonymous: piquero ): rider whose role consists in pricking the bull at the time of the first tercio
• Pique (bullfight): action to prick the bull and instrument used to prick
• President: leader of a bullfight. He has a white handkerchief to grant an ear, of a green to return a defective bull, of a blue to ask a solo circuit of the skin of an exceptional bull
• Pundonor: direction of the honor, moral rigor of the matador
• Puntilla: dagger used to complete the bull after the Thrust
• Puntillero: Peón charged to complete the bull using a puntilla
• Puya: metal point at the end of the spade

Q

• Querencia (affection): surface of safety adopted by the bull in the arena
• Quite (of quitar : to remove): intervention of a bullfighter aiming at drawing aside the load of the bull of another bullfighter in danger or of the picador

R

• Regatón : end of the sleeve of the spade
• Rejón: javelin with which the estoque matador the bull at the time of a Bullfight of rejón
• Rejoneador: matador combatant with horse in a Bullfight of rejón
• Revistero: journalist taurin specialized
• Ruedo: track sand glaze in an arena where the combat

is held

S

• Semental : male reproductive bull
• Sentido (judgment): a bull of sentido is a warned animal, which “includes/understands” and will be able to seek to reach the bullfighter
• Sitio: perfect locus which starts the load of the bull and where the man must await it before dodging it
• Sobrero (remaining): indicate the bull of reserve, used only if one of the six animals envisaged cannot be fought
• Sorteo: drawing lot determining the distribution of the bulls between the matadors
• Suerte (chance, leaves): sequence of combat, action

T

• Taleguilla: breeches constitutive of the bullfighter's costume, tightened with the top of the knee using braided cords, the machos , themselves decorated of nipples, the caireles
• Temple: rate/rhythm where the man agrees to perfection at the rate/rhythm of the load of the bull
• Temporada (season): season of the bullfights. The temporada taurine begins in March and is completed in October in Europe.
• Tercio : generic name of each of the three acts of the bullfight
• Tienta (synonymous: tentadero ): selection trial of the reproductive cows and bulls, parents of the toros of lidia
• Toreador: term used, often in an unsuitable way, as synonym of bullfighter or matador
• Toreo: manner, technique and art of toréer, “to play” with the comic bull
• Toreo: bullfight
• Torerista parodies: public primarily attracted by the art of the matador
• Bullfighter: that which faces the bull at the time of a bullfight, that he is matador or member of the cuadrilla
• Toril: place where one holds the bulls locked up before the combat
• Torista: public primarily attracted by the spectacle of the bull
• Toro of fuego: pyrotechnical spectacle parodying the bullfight
• Toro of lidia: Spanish bovine race of fighting bulls, old of at least four years
• Trapío: physical scale and ardor of the bull
• Tremendiste: risky attitude which consists in facing the bull without to have taken time to study its behavior
• Trophées: granted by the presidency: an ear if proclamation public the wish (by agitating a white handkerchief in particular), two ears or two ears and the tail, on the only judgment of the president
• Turista: occasional public or foreigner

U

• Utrero : young bull age from two to three years (syn. novillo)

V

• Servant of swords: to see Mozo of espadas
• Varilarguero (carrying long lance): ancestor of the picador, central figure of the bullfight until the middle of the XVIIIe century
• Verdugo (torturer, executor): special sword being used for the Descabello
• Veronique: passes of hoods
• Victorino Martín: one of the most prestigious stockbreeders of toros of lidia
• Vuelta: solo circuit which the bullfighter with the approval and the applause of the public

achieves

W

X

Y

Z

• Zapatillas : light shoes of the bullfighter

Sources

• the hour of the bullfight , Claude Pelletier, Editions Discovered Gallimard
• the Essential bullfight , François Coupry, Editions Milan
• To know the bullfight , Dominique Page, South-western Editions

See too

External bond

• Word Refers Spanish Dictionary

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