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Matadore   Listen
noun
Matadore, Matador  n.  
1.
The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights; a bullfighter; a toreador.
2.
(Card Playing) 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. "When Lady Tricksey played a four, You took it with a matadore."
3.
(Skat) The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, whether by the player or by his adversaries.
4.
A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Matadore" Quotes from Famous Books



... with undismayed perseverance he pressed on, stumbling headlong over the outstretched feet of his female persecutors, and getting constantly entangled in the ample folds of the reindeerskin curtains, which were thrown with the skill of a matador over his head and eyes. In a moment the bride had entered the last closed polog near the door, while the unfortunate bridegroom was still struggling with his accumulating misfortunes about half-way around the tent. I expected to see him relax his efforts and give up ...
— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan

... most expert of Jeffreys' enemies. He worried the Cad not so much out of spite as because it amused him, and, like the nimble matador, he kept well out of reach of the bull all the time he was firing shots ...
— A Dog with a Bad Name • Talbot Baines Reed



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