bull feast

English

Noun

bull feast (plural bull feasts)

(now rare) An entertainment featuring a bull; a bull baiting; (in Spanish contexts) a bullfight.
- 1750, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 9:
  The Commodore staid at Lisbon a week, in which time there happened two of the greatest sights that could be seen had he staid there a whole year, – a bull feast, and the procession of Corpus Christi.

Anagrams

stableful, tablefuls, tablesful

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