torero

[ tuh-rair-oh; Spanish taw-re-raw ]

/ təˈrɛər oʊ; Spanish tɔˈrɛ rɔ /

a bullfighter, especially a matador.

Origin of torero

1720–30; < Spanish, equivalent to tor(o) bull (< Latin taurus) + -ero < Latin -ārius -ary

The torero was to realize his desire of building a house for his mother.

The Blood of the Arena |Vicente Blasco Ibez
He liked bull-fighting and he became a torero at twenty-four, just as he might have chosen any other trade.

The Blood of the Arena |Vicente Blasco Ibez
Montes introduced the modern style in the art of the torero.

The Story of Seville |Walter M. Gallichan
The story hinges upon the rivalry of the gentleman and the torero for the good graces of the grisette.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 |Various

To their wives is due much of the making and all the keeping up of the elaborate and costly dress of the torero.

Spanish Life in Town and Country |L. Higgin and Eugne E. Street

torero

/ (tɒˈrɛərəʊ) /

a bullfighter, esp one who fights on foot

C18: from Spanish, from Late Latin taurārius, from Latin taurus a bull