Paseo de Sarasate—a park in the center of Pamplona.
She did not knock—implies that Brett and Romero are intimate.
death mask—a cast of a person’s face taken soon after death.
smooth-rolled—before a bullfight, the sand of the bullring is flattened and smoothed by means of heavy rollers.
muleta—(Spanish) a red flannel cloth draped over a stick and manipulated by the matador in his series of passes.
glasses—opera glasses or binoculars.
Belmonte—Juan Belmonte was a matador renowned throughout Spain during the early 1920s. In other words, Hemingway here features an actual person as a minor character in his fictional story.
It looked badly marked—that is, bruised from his fight with Cohn.
percale—fine, closely woven cotton cloth.
fistula—an abnormal passage from an abscess, cavity, or hollow organ to the skin or to another abscess, cavity, or organ.
motor—automobile.
“quite”—according to Hemingway himself, in his bullfighting treatise Death in the Afternoon, “the taking away of the bull from any one who has been placed in immediate danger by him.”
veronica—a move in which the matador holds a cape out and pivots slowly as the bull charges past it.
templed—again, according to Death in the Afternoon, temple is “the quality of slowness, suavity, and rhythm in a bullfighter’s work.”
spraddle—(blend of spread and straddle) (Informal or Dialectic) to spread (the legs) in a sprawling or straddling way.
