› a traditional public entertainment, especially in Spain, in which a person fights and sometimes kills a bull (= male cow)
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Examples from literature
- By this the whole matter had presented itself to them as an entertainment more diverting than bullfight or bear-baiting.
- He didn't himself agree that the bullfight was so much crueller than most organised activities of men.
- He had fallen into that lecturer's manner she had noticed on the first night at the office, when he had told them about bullfights.
- He has won twelve hundred pounds at the bullfights.
- When not thus engaged he may be seen excitedly watching a bullfight, or eagerly judging the merits of rival wrestlers, boxers, and fencers.
