hacienda
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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
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
Everything that needed to be driven to and from the hacienda was taken care of by either Roberto or his son, Arturo, who loved to go into town.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Those often evolved into the even larger haciendas, the size of whole states back in Europe.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
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
The mines supported sprawling haciendas, estates housing bosses and business operations.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
The Spaniards built haciendas, not unlike the ones that dominated the campos of “old” Mexico.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2014
He said, for those willing, there was always work on the coffee haciendas.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
Vocabulary lists containing hacienda
Mexico - Introductory
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Mexico - Middle School
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Mexico - High School
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