hacienda
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Now it is 7,000 square feet—a proper Spanish hacienda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
While Moreno-Garcia's book mentions "importing hacienda workers from China. I have not read the book, and do not know whether this would be considered 'negative.'"
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024
Word that the gated, four-bedroom hacienda at the end of a cul-de-sac was slated to be torn town sparked expressions of outrage on social media, the Times reported.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2023
Shortly after seeing his work in Lima, a Mexican mining businessman hired him to create something for his hacienda.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
That evening I went to his living loft and studio, which was on the second floor of a run-down hacienda in an old section of town.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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Unlike the Spanish-style haciendas, the Italianate villas, or faux Tudor mansions that populated this neighborhood of film stars, crowds were there to see this paragon of modernism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Like the other haciendas in the area it was once part of a henequen ranch.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2019
If they did not own mines themselves, leading colonists raised these products, as well as sugar and tobacco, on large landed estates called haciendas.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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He also gives tours of the town and takes people on guided hikes, bike trips or drives to basalt cliffs, waterfalls, haciendas, hamlets and vistas.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
I rode out to inspect my lands, paid a few visits to the neighboring haciendas, kept my eye on the tenants.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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