campo
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The German synagogue was constructed by a group of Ashkenazi Jews with five large windows that overlook the ghetto’s central square, or campo.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2022
“He’d tell me again and again, ‘They built all this on top of our campo santo,’ ” said Hernandez, 73, using the Spanish term for cemetery.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
We entered deeper into Sudan, in a big agricultural camp called a "campo."
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2021
One worth visiting is Palazzo Fortuny, an oft-overlooked Gothic palace tucked away on a quiet campo that was once home to the designer Mariano Fortuny.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014
His father is our father's brother, Tío Orlando, who has a half dozen children from una mujer del campo, a woman from the countryside around one of his ranches.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
For months, the alleys, porticoes and campos reverberated with Italian, and even with Venetian dialect.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2020
But scriving is proprietary and is mostly practiced in the campos — heavily gated elite communities — while the folk of the Commons, who live in poverty and danger, are left to fend for themselves.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2018
The Spaniards built haciendas, not unlike the ones that dominated the campos of “old” Mexico.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2014
Today, the colony supports 15,000 Mennonites who live in 54 campos, small communities of 40 or 50 families.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not uncommon to find once cultivated fields abandoned because of their ravages and to see large campos completely covered with enormous ant-hills.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
