Note 17 — Chapter V · TAUROMACHIA, The Fighting Bull of Spain.
Reading edition
The bull-fighters and their friends affect a language peculiar to the Plaza: a dialect of systematic construction. To acquire a knowledge of this "Jerga" (La Germania), with its idiomatic piquancy and raciness, is the aim of the "fancy" young men, the Flamencos of Southern Spain. To be in the circle of the popular bull-fighters, with its perilous female entourage, is considered chic by certain gilded youth. Flamenco-ism appears to find its beau idéal in the borderland which lies between the bizarre existence of the "torero" and the Gitano or gypsy. (See chapter on the Spanish Gypsy of to-day.)