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Also known as: combats des taureaux, corrida de toros, corrida de touros, tauromachy, tauromaquia
Juli, El; bullfighting
- Key People:
- Conchita Cintrón Manolete John Fulton Dominguín El Juli
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bullfighting, Spanish la fiesta brava (“the brave festival”) or corrida de toros (“running of bulls”), Portuguese corrida de touros, French combats de taureaux, also called tauromachy, the national spectacle of Spain and many Spanish-speaking countries, in which a bull is ceremoniously fought in a sand arena by a matador and usually killed. Bullfighting is also popular in Portugal and southern France, though in the former, where the bull is engaged by a bullfighter on horseback, and in many bullrings in the latter, it is illegal to kill the bull in the arena. A kind of bullfighting is popular in Korea, ...(100 of 9553 words)