Also 8 tauriro. [Sp.] A (Spanish) bull-fighter (on foot). Cf. TOREADOR.
1728. ? De Foe, Capt. Carleton’s Mem., 264. So that the poor Creature may be said to fight, not only with the Tauriro (or Bull-hunter …) but with the whole Multitude in the lower Class at least. Ibid., 267. The Tauriroes are very well paid.
1832. Macgillivray, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., xix. 287. They observe the manners of the crocodile as the torero studies those of the bull.
