Definition of Novillada

1. Noun. A bullfight in which the bulls are less than four years old.

Generic synonyms: Bullfight, Corrida

Lexicographical Neighbors of Novillada

novenaries
novenary
novenas
novene
novennial
novercal
noverint
noverints
novgorodovaite
novice
novices
noviceship
noviceships
noviciate
noviciates
novillada (current term)
novillero
novilunar
novitiate
novitiates
novities
novitious
novity
novobiocic acid synthetase
novobiocin
novobiocins
novocaine
novocaines
novum
novums

Literary usage of Novillada

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... dressed grotesquely stand up like ninepins, within a few feet of each other, and a frisky novillada, or young bull, was let in to knock them over. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843)
"... of gold for the relief of the poor and support of the hospital, and ten more to be spent in a novillada, or bull-bait and festival for the whole town. ..."

3. Spain, a Study of Her Life and Arts by Royall Tyler (1909)
"Except in a few great cities and in the districts were fighting bulls are bred, no corridas, except for a rare novillada, take place out of fair-time, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"... according to the reputation o. the herd, though bulls for a novillada or second- rate bull-fight cost far less. The breeder's liability does not end ..."

5. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"Cow between three and six years of age. novillada, sf. 1. Drove of young bulls or bullocks. 2. Fight of young bulls or bullocks. ..."

6. Cities and Sea-coasts and Islands by Arthur Symons (1918)
"I realise it more clearly, and understand it less than ever, since I have come from that novillada at Valencia. Winter, 1898. ..."

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