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What is a banderilla?

What is a banderilla? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (bullfighting) A decorated barbed stick used in bullfighting to stick into the bulls' shoulders.
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In celebration, the story goes, the quintessentially Peruvian condor was set like a living banderilla to torment the imperial bull.
The banderillero, carrying a banderilla in each hand, runs towards the charging bull at an angle and places the banderillas in its neck.
And the smile was as a banderilla to her niece's goaded spirit.
The kill, in these rare instances, is simulated using a banderilla or an empty hand, and the bull is then put out to stud.
Every pica, and every banderilla, plunged into the bull's body are cheered by the matador's hero worshipers.
Nacional, with the banderilla in his hand, attracted the bull to the centre of the plaza.

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