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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

Last summer, the Spanish Colonial-style hacienda was saved by the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2025

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

Waiting for them in the courtyard of the hacienda were all the tenants, under orders from the foreman, Pedro Segundo Garcia.

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

These brief decades were glamorized by a huge bestseller, an 1884 novel called “Ramona,” by Helen Hunt Jackson, who had been a guest at one of the great haciendas.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2021

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

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




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