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Cerviguillo: the high part of the bull's neck where the hump of muscle forms the so-called morillo or erective muscular crest of the neck.
Chato: snub nosed.
Chico: small; also means youngster. The younger brothers of bullfighters are usually referred to by the family name or professional name with Chico appended as: Armillita Chico, Amoros Chico, etc.
Chicuelinas: a pass with the cape invented by Manuel Jiminez "Chicuelo." The man offers the cape to the bull and when the bull has charged and is past, the man, while the bull turns, makes a pirouette in which the cape wraps itself around him. At the conclusion of the pirouette he is facing the bull ready to make another pass.
Chiquero: the closed stalls in which the bulls await their entrance into the ring.
Choto: a calf which is still nursing; term of contempt to describe under-aged and undersized bulls.
Citar: challenging the bull's attention to provoke a charge.
Clarines: the trumpets that give the signals at the president's orders to a
Claro: a bull that is simple and easy to work with.
Cobarde: a cowardly bull or bullfighter.
Cobrar: to collect; el mano de cobrar is the right hand.
Cogida: the tossing of a man by the bull; means literally the catching; if the bull catches he tosses.
Cojo: lame; a bull which comes into the ring lame may be retired. The spectators will commence to shout "Cojo" as soon as they perceive the lameness.
Cojones: testicles; a valorous bullfighter is said to be plentifully equipped with these. In a cowardly bullfighter they are said to be absent. Those of the bull are called criadillas and prepared in any of the ways sweetbreads are usually cooked they are a great delicacy. During the killing of the fifth bull the criadillas of the first bull were sometimes served in the royal box. Primo de Rivera was so fond of interlarding his discourse with reference to manly virtues that he was said to have eaten so many criadillas that they had gone to his brain.
Cola: the bull's tail; usually called rabo. Cola may also mean the line in front of a ticket window.
Colada: the instant in which the bullfighter finds his position untenable when through mismanagement of the cloth or through the bull paying no attention to it or abandoning it to seek the man, the man must save himself from the charge as best he can.
Coleando: hanging onto the bull's tail, twisting it toward his head. This gives great pain to the bull and often damages his spinal column. It is only permissible when the bull is goring, or trying to gore a man on the ground.
Coleta: the short, tightly braided, curved pigtail worn at the back of the head by the bullfighter to attach the mona, a black sort of hollow, dull, silk-covered button about twice the size of a silver dollar which supports the hat. Bullfighters formerly all wore this tress of hair pi
Colocar: to place; a man is bien colocado when he places himself correctly in the ring for all the different acts of the bullfight. It is also used when speaking of the placing of the sword, the pic and the banderillas in the bull. A bullfighter is also said to be bien colocado when he has finally arrived at a recognized position in his profession.
Compuesto: composed; holding his figure straight while the bull charges.
Confianza: self-confidence; peón de confianza — confidential banderillero who represents and may even advise the matador.
Confiar: to become confident and sure of himself with a bull.
Conocedor: a professional overseer of the fighting bulls on a breeder's estates.
Consentirse: to get very close to the bull with the body or lure in order to force a charge and then keep close and keep the bull charging.
Contrabarrera: second row of seats at the bull ring.
Contratas: contracts signed by bullfighters.
Contratista de Caballos: horse contractor; furnishes horses for a fight for a fixed sum.
Cornada: a horn wound; a real wound as distinct from a varetazo or bruising scratch. A cornada de caballo is a huge cornada, the same sort of wound in a man that the bull usually makes in the chest of a horse.
Cornalón: bull with exceptionally large horns.
Corniabierto: exceptionally wide horned.
Corniavacado: cowhorned. Bull in which the horns turn up and back.
Cornicorto: shorthorned.
Cornigacho: bull with low horns coming quite straight forward.
Corniveleto: high straight horns.
Corral: enclosure adjoining the ring in which the bulls are kept immediately before they are to be fought. Provided with feed-boxes, salt and fresh water.
Correr: to run; used to denote the ru
Corrida or Corrida de Toros: the Spanish bullfight.
Corrida de Novillos Toros: fight in which young or big but defective bulls are used.
Corta: short, an estocada in which the sword goes in a little more than half way.
Cortar: to cut; bullfighters often sustain slight cuts on the hands with the sword when managing sword and muleta. Cortar la oreja — to cut the bull's ear. Cortar la coleta — to cut the pigtail or retire.
Cortar terreno: the bull is said to cut in on the terrain of the bullfighter when after the man has provoked a charge ana is ru
Corto (torero corto): matador with a limited repertoire.
Corto — vestido de corto: wearing the short jacket of the Andalucian bull herders. Bullfighters formerly dressed in their costume when not in the ring.