Meaning of banderillas by Jimeno Álvarez

1.-the flags are a top served in Spanish bars consisting of a few pickles: pickles, olives, onions and a spicy pepper, etc, inserted as a length of approximately 10 cm stick a skewer. The feature of the flag is your mix in the sour taste of the pickle and the slightly spicy chili.
2.-plural of bullfighting, the 40 flag banderillaEn; also called rehilete or garapullo ) It is a thin stick, about 70 to 78 centimeters long, coated and decorated with shredded paper and an iron in one end, a Harpoon, employee in the Lydia to nail, peer, in the cerviguillo of the Bull.The flags are also colloquial avivadores or alegradores, because they serve to revive and excite the bull without removing forces, after the hardness and the stillness of the third of rods. They are a relic of primitive bullfighting and festivals, where harpoons and other similar instruments were used to enrage the Bull. In the past, they nailed one by one and not paired, as it is done today. Hillo mentioned at the end of the 18th century that was considered of great merit nail to pares, having not just changed his technique since then.Usually the subordinates who carried out this task called why banderilleros, although exceptionally the sword, you can do it to show off to the sound of music, or when it is especially skilled at this sort.