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Hacienda

noun

A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.

The main house on a ranch or large estate.

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"Hacienda" Quotes from Famous Books

... turned to the matter of procuring a house, such as I have spoken of, and the professor told me that he had heard of a hacienda, well built and solid, and standing in its own domain, about three leagues across the valley to the westward, on a secluded little plain among the hills, which would serve our purpose excellently; but the owner of it wished to sell it, and 'with the stupidity of these Peruvians,' as he said, ...

— The Romance of Golden Star ... • George Chetwynd Griffith

... volley of musketry rang out, repeated again and again, at regular intervals, and the tiny jets of water which were sent up by the bullets told that, concealed near about the ruins of the hacienda, a troop of Spanish soldiers were making what possibly they may have believed to be an attack upon the big war-ship. It was much as if a swarm of gnats had set about endeavouring to worry an elephant, and likely to have ...

— The Boys of '98 • James Otis

Words linked to "Hacienda" : landed estate, land, acres, demesne, house, estate