matador
noun/ˈmætədɔː(r)/
/ˈmætədɔːr/
(from Spanish)- a person who fights and kills the bull in a bullfightWord OriginSpanish, literally ‘killer’, from matar ‘to kill’, from Persian māt ‘dead’.
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