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bullfighting
Also known as: cape
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invention by Romero
- In Francisco Romero
…who reputedly invented the bullfighter’s muleta, a red cape used in conjunction with the sword. With it the matador leads the bull through the most spectacular passes of the bullfight, finally leading it to lower its head, so that the matador may thrust the sword between the bull’s shoulders. Romero…
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use in bullfighting
- In bullfighting: The rise of professional bullfighting
…in the kill, and the muleta, the small red flannel cloth draped over a 22-inch (56-cm) stick that forms the small cape used in the bullfight’s final act. Romero was famous for executing the more dangerous, dramatic, and difficult of the two methods of killing the bull—the recibiendo, in which…
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