‖ barrera
(baˈrera)
[Sp., barricade, barrier: see barrier.]
A barrier, spec. that encircling a bull-ring; also the row of seats nearest to it.
| 1924 Hemingway In our Time 22 He [sc. a horse] cantered jerkily along the barrera. 1926 ― Sun also Rises xiv. 155 Carpenters replaced weakened or cracked planks in the barrera. Ibid. xv. 167, I had taken six seats..three of them were barreras, the first row at the ringside. 1932 ― Death in Afternoon iii. 35 A red wooden fence a little over four feet high..called a barrera. |