‖ recorte Bull-fighting.
(reˈcorte)
[Sp., lit. ‘cutting, trimming’.]
A pass by which the torero cuts short the bull's charge.
| 1925 E. Hemingway in This Quarter I. ii. 217 A series of acceptable veronicas ending in a very Belmontistic recorte. 1932 ― Death in Afternoon vii. 67 A recorte is any pass with the cape that..stops him brusquely. 1932 R. Campbell Taurine Provence iii. 71 The cape, the use of which varies from the vulgar vuelta and recorte to the most perfect designs. 1967 McCormick & Mascareñas Compl. Aficionado ii. 54 The banderillero..performs a rough recorte to fix the toro gently before he disappears behind a burladero. |