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
We pulled up in front of Jase’s house, an architectural monstrosity that looked generally like an oversize Spanish hacienda except for three thick Doric columns going up to the roof.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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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
As in Spain itself, the focus on mines and haciendas discouraged economic diversity and self-sustaining development, and led to a society dominated by a small wealthy elite atop a mass of impoverished laborers.
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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