Associations to the word «Tercio»

Wiktionary

TERCIO, noun. (bullfighting) Each of the three stages of a bullfight - with the vara, the banderilla and finally the death
TERCIO, noun. An infantry formation made up of pikemen, swordsmen and arquebusiers or musketeers in a mutually supportive formation

Wise words

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Nathaniel Hawthorne