Veronica

Quick meaning: Veronica is a noun meaning (bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape, used to avoid the bull.

Meaning

(bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape, used to avoid the bull.

More Meanings

1. (botany) A flower of the genus Veronica, usually having blue petals.
2. To draw a muleta over and away from a bull's face in bullfighting.
3. (Roman Catholicism) The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.

Example Sentences

He wiped the lady’s martini glass, having had some trouble with a kind of veronica of lipstick, spat in it viciously, then washed it again.

meadows full of wildflowers that seemed to Kit enormous, violets as big as your hand, yellow lilies and blue veronica you could shelter from the rain under

The cougher makes a lunge. Slothrop sweeps aside, gives him a quick veronica with his cape, sticks his foot out and trips the kid, who lies on the ground cursing

There are also (placed there by man or nature?) quite a lot of skinny fuchsias and dense veronicas, all in flower, and some kind of rather attractive grey-leaved sage.

Word Forms

• veronicas
• veronicaing
• veronicaed

Synonyms for veronica

Depending on context, synonyms include speedwell.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include speedwell, originally, brooklime, gypsyweed, theca, chrisom.

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