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To play tricks on the bull with one's cloak.

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Usage examples (5)
  • "There is your mounted capeador, your brave toreador," she says to Luis, "and they are all alike."
  • Cogan that Juan, the best mounted capeador in all South America, was that very morning breaking in a new horse on the ranch of Don Vicente
  • Once he put his head down he had eyes only for the red cape, and so long as the capeador handled his cape and himself with speed and skill, and no accident happened, he...
  • He had a brother Juan, who was a famous mounted capeador, he said -- that's the man who sits with a red cloak on a horse in the first part of the bull fight and Cogan...
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