El Cordobés

[ el kawr-thaw-ves ]

noun

1. Manuel Benítez Pérez, born 1936, Spanish bullfighter.

Example Sentences

In 2016 they proved that bullfighter Manuel Díaz was the son of a celebrated bullfighter of the 1960s, Manuel Benítez, nicknamed "El Cordobés".

From BBC

El Cordobés was at the bullring.

From The New Yorker

When that sample suggested the two “El Cordobés” were father and son, the court conducted its own blood tests, confirming paternity to a 99.9% degree of certainty.

From Time

But the elder man rejects the claim that he fathered Díaz — who himself became a bullfighter and also uses the name “El Cordobés” — after meeting Díaz’s mother, a maid, at the height of the older man’s popularity in the 1960s.

From Time

He has five other children - one of whom, Julio, is also a bullfighter and is also known as "El Cordobes".

From BBC