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2007-03-03 06:19:59 · 6 answers · asked by RK 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

Friends, many of you replied with the name for the man who fights and kills the bull. I want to know if there is a name for the BULL not the man.

2007-03-03 19:09:51 · update #1

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A torero(roughly "bull handler") is the main performer in bullfighting events in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries. He or she is the person who performs with and finally kills the bull. The role is also called toreador in English (and in Bizet's opera Carmen), but this term is almost never used in Spain or in Latin America. The term torero encompases bullfighters who fight the bull on foot as well as those who do so on horseback (picadores and rejoneadores)

The most skillful toreros can be elevated to the title Matador at a special bullfight called an alternativa. At this bullfight the novillero (junior bullfighter) is presented to the crowd as a matador de toros.
A matador, literately killer, is considered to be as much an artist as a competitor. One of the most famous toreros of all time was Juan Belmonte, whose technique in the ring revolutionized bullfighting and remains the standard by which matadors are judged to this day. The style and bravery of the matador is regarded as being at least as important as whether or not he actually kills the bull. The most successful matadores used to be treated like pop stars, with a matching financial income, cult followings and accompanied by lurid tabloid stories about their sexual conquests. Currently, however, even top matadors earn less in real terms than their peers did in the 1960s, and mass media coverage is limited to a handful of matadors known as the "mediaticos" and which do not include any of the top bullfighters in Spain. The danger of bullfighting adds to the matador's mystique; matadores are often injured by bulls and more than 40 have been killed in the ring. One of the most famous bullfighters in history, Manolete, died this way in 1947. This hazard is said to be central to the nature and appeal of bullfighting.

2007-03-03 07:04:35 · answer #1 · answered by Catie I 5 · 0 0

Bull*

2007-03-03 14:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by Murray H 6 · 0 1

El Toro?? and the man fighting it is a matador

2007-03-03 15:11:56 · answer #3 · answered by heather h 5 · 0 0

bull fighter? matador

2007-03-03 14:22:19 · answer #4 · answered by discostu 5 · 0 1

matador

2007-03-03 14:22:30 · answer #5 · answered by chellyk 5 · 0 1

toreador
or
torero

2007-03-03 15:09:09 · answer #6 · answered by mrjomorisin 4 · 0 0

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