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語源

Spanish picador (“stinger”)

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkədɔː(ɹ)/

名詞

picador (複数形 picadors または picadores)

1. (bullfighting) A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.

   I saw the picador lance the bull.

   • 1889, Nellie Bly, Six Months In Mexico, page 42:

     The bull roars with pain, and the banderillas toss about in the lacerated flesh, from which the blood pours in crimson streams. "Poor beast! what a shame," we think, and even then the order is given for the picador to attack the bull.

アナグラム

• caproid, carpoid, crapoid, parodic