"bull feast" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bull feasts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bull feast (plural bull feasts)
  1. (now rare) An entertainment featuring a bull; a bull baiting; (in Spanish contexts) a bullfight. Tags: archaic
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Inflected forms

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