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hacienda

[hah-see-en-duh, ah-syen-dah] / ˌhɑ siˈɛn də, ɑˈsjɛn dɑ /
NOUN
large estate
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A lawyer educated in Britain and France, she has impressed visiting U.S. officials over elaborate dinners at a restored coffee hacienda in Caracas.

From The Wall Street Journal May 24, 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

With five bedrooms, a Jacuzzi and a grand entryway capped by a cupola, the hacienda stood out from the crumbling adobe buildings nearby.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2023

One day, Dr. Pérez picked us up at our hotel in his battered Russian sedan and we drove to the hacienda, in a place called Santiago de las Vegas.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

They haven’t the scaled-down pretensions of two-bedroom mock-Spanish haciendas.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2021

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

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

Nor was she the only one; the tenants at Tres Marias and many peasants from haciendas across the region also waited for him.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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