campo
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of campo
1605–15; < Spanish < Latin campus field
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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
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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
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Venice, 204, 264.on campos, 221.Ibsen and Browning, 103.James,
From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry
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