(n.) The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights.
(n.) In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one.
Example Sentences:
(1) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(2) Photograph: Rex Features On arrival in Brussels last week, Renzi was greeted by Angela Merkel as "the matador".
(3) As dusk fell in the Catalan capital, sequin-clad local matador Serafín Marín dispatched the last of six bulls on the sand of the packed La Monumental bullring – where touts had been offering tickets at eight times their original price.
(4) The odds of the game may be stacked against the Tories, but the bloodied bull keeps charging and it is the nervous matador who is gored.
(5) Once you just open your mind to not knowing how it will turn out and just be like a receptor to the whole thing, eventually, hopefully, it will be OK." Wakin On A Pretty Daze is Vile's second album for major indie label Matador, who released Smoke Ring For My Halo, and in style and format (the shortest song here is nearly six minutes long; the longest, over 17) it sounds very much like an artist seeking to reassert his identity.
(6) I knew nothing about the rules and intricacies of the sport so all I saw were crowds of well-fed, well-dressed people baying for blood, roaring and cheering at the sight of pain and demanding more of it as picadors on horses and a matador in a brilliant costume ritually tormented and tortured a bull.
(7) The quote from Cobi was this: ‘I don’t have to put balls in the air or send crosses to Hermosillo because I am a striker myself.’ That headline was in La Opinion: ‘I am a striker myself.’ The last was Luis Hernandez, a forward with flowing blond hair and the nickname El Matador .
(8) Wakin On A Pretty Daze is out in the UK on 8 Apr on Matador.
(9) Most meet their death when a sequin-suited matador finally thrusts a sword into their neck.
(10) Darcey wants more arm curve to make him a "more convincing space matador".
(11) In 2005’s The Matador he was a drunken, well-past-it hitman, though the wrinkles and crows-feet were already tightening in 1999’s The Thomas Crown Affair .
(12) Horseback bullfights had been popular in medieval times, but in 1726 matador Francisco Romero began fighting on foot with a cape and a sword – sparking a new fashion.
(13) A kind of unshaven, post-watershed, post-divorce and redundancy Johnny Bravo whose style inspiration sits somewhere between matador and gimp.
(14) 7.33pm GMT Bruno thought it was more space cadet than matador, and I couldn't agree more.
(15) Ceepak Chopra (@SoNotLightSkin) Who the hell let this little matador sing the national anthem ?
(16) Something Good is about "the death of a matador as an analogy for the slow mending of a broken heart through fun distractions".
(17) Pierce Brosnan's washed-up hitman in The Matador is forever ill-shaven, often calamitously drunk and bereft of discretion.
(18) That is not the fashionable view, not least because the opposition leader makes an unlikely matador.
(19) Which is why Sky Germany advertised their coverage of this week's return legs with a not-too-subtle short clip about a matador.
(20) As actor-manager, Gassman had continued to choose appealing roles, but, after a successful season appearing in Irma La Douce in 1959, and, in the same year, winning national popularity by exploiting his over-the-top versatility on a television series, Il Mattatore (something between "matador" and "madman"), he decided the time had come to launch a long-cherished project, his Teatro Popolare Italiano (TPI), which made him one of Italian television's first nationwide stars.
Picador
Definition:
(n.) A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst is published by Picador, £9.99; his new novel, The Sparsholt Affair , is out in October.
(2) The Christmas Truce , by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by David Roberts, is published by Picador (£5.99).
(3) I knew nothing about the rules and intricacies of the sport so all I saw were crowds of well-fed, well-dressed people baying for blood, roaring and cheering at the sight of pain and demanding more of it as picadors on horses and a matador in a brilliant costume ritually tormented and tortured a bull.
(4) The winning anthology will be announced three months after the closing date, and it will be published by Picador with a foreword by Duffy, who will also visit the winning school.
(5) When the news broke several months later that she had worked undercover at Picador, I had the wonderful task of enlightening my blissfully ignorant colleagues as to who Bridget, the rather posh-sounding and gorgeous work-experience person, really was.
(6) The film tie-in book is published by Picador, priced £6.99.
(7) She's currently on a poetry reading tour ahead of her next collection, Hold Your Own , being published by Picador in October.
(8) The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Picador Omotoso’s second novel is about elderly, widowed neighbors Hortensia and Marion, a black and a white lady (respectively) who trade barbs and bitterness across the hedge they share.
(9) Illustration by Christophe Gowans Robert F Worth’s book A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil from Tahrir Square to Isis is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Picador • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here .
(10) This is an edited extract from No Place Like Home, A Black Briton's Journey Through the American South, by Gary Younge, published by Picador at £16.
(11) And for some reason the rule doesn't apply to recent anniversary redesigns of Orwell (by David Pearson for Penguin) or BS Johnson (by La Boca for Picador).
(12) With a new volume of poetry due to be published by Picador next month, and the boost in album sales from the Mercury nomination, Tempest's voice looks to be one we will be hearing for some while to come.
(13) It doesn't hurt that Zellweger's portrayal of Bridget is the stuff of legend, turning herself from a svelte Hollywood goddess into a "chubby" London PR girl, gaining 30lb by eating doughnuts and going method for the role when she went undercover as secretary "Bridget Cavendish" at the offices of the Picador publishing house in Victoria for three weeks.
(14) Macmillan published the series in its Picador paperbacks in 1996 under the title PWA – Looking Aids in the Face .
(15) Jim Crace's Harvest is published by Picador at £16.99.
(16) None of Faber's entries pleased AC Grayling's don-dominated panel, and two second-tier imprints with good enough past form to gain three slots, Harvill Secker and Picador, too, missed out.
(17) This panel's preference for plot has meant that big-ticket fiction, such as Edward St Aubyn's At Last (Picador) or Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child (Picador), were outgunned by, among others, a thriller and a western.
(18) As the publisher of Bridget Jones's Diary, Picador was always going to be the natural nine-to-five home for Renée, who wanted to spend time familiarising herself with the publishing environment and to try out her English accent.
(19) OK.’” Her publisher, Picador Poetry, asked her to record an audio version, in the hope of reaching new Tempest fans who don’t usually buy poetry (“I don’t know who buys poetry,” she admits), but some poems were hard to read out loud.
(20) The shortlist We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus) ( Read the Guardian review) The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta) ( Read the Observer review ) Harvest by Jim Crace (Picador) ( Read the Guardian review ) The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury) ( Read the Observer review ) A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate) ( Read the Guardian review ) The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (Viking) ( Read the Guardian review )