taurophile

English

Noun

taurophile (plural taurophiles)

1. A fan of bullfighting.
   • 1852, Fraser's Magazine, volume 45, page 540:

     Nevertheless, the church of Spain had its taurophile clergy, as the church of England has her sporting parsons.

   • 2015, Christopher Conway, Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History, page 125:

     Fortunately for the avid taurophiles of Lima, Pope Gregorius XIII reinstated the sport eight years later, although he decreed that bullfights not be held on religious holidays and that clerics be banned from attending, among other cautions.