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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.






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"Matadore" Quotes from Famous Books



... Good Book says is given to the sparrow. They are not lilies of the field. They must toil or die. You people are to them the lilies of the field! Your fine gowns, your happy lives, your endless opportunities for amusement; your extravagances are to them as the matador's flag to the bull in the Spanish ring. Unless you do take the interest, unless you do fight to stem the movement of these dwarfed and bitter leaders, unless you do overcome their arguments based on much solid-rock truth ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball

... captains, and particularly these bandits, exercise over the mass of Mexicans. A bandit is a man of honor in Mexico. He is feared, envied, loved. In the hearts of the people he stands next to the national idol—the bull-fighter, the matador. The race has a wild, barbarian, bloody strain. Take Quinteros, for instance. He was a peon, a slave. He became a famous bandit. At the outbreak of the revolution he proclaimed himself a leader, and with a band of followers he devastated ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey



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