estancia
Americannoun
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estancias
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of estancia
First recorded in 1695–1705; from Latin American Spanish: “ranch,” Spanish: “dwelling”
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Strip away the Humvees and athletic fields, and the base could be an Argentine estancia, home to gauchos instead of guardsmen.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2019
At nearby La Sorpresa, the great wooded estancia of one of Argentina's first families, Sportsman Simon Pereyra Iraola was entertaining his father-in-law, Senator Antonio Santamarina, leader of Argentina's Democratic party.
From Time Magazine Archive
A colt on an estancia, flinging itself up with angry tears in its eyes after the humiliation of branding.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thomas Rattagan, 53, a rancher not far from Buenos Aires, predicted that at least part of the estancia that he has worked for 25 years will be expropriated.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Alacran estancia was laid out over a large area.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
Vaqueros once ate something like it on cattle drives across the estancias of South Texas, through the Rio Grande Valley, where Tex-Mex, or Texas Mexican, has its roots.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2019
Soon the page filled up with the names of sights: national parks, caves full of prehistoric paintings, estancias.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2011
In the estancias there are 80,000 head of cattle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well satisfied were Uruguay's rural million and a half who raise sheep and cattle on its rolling pastures, doze under the trees in front of white plaster estancias.
From Time Magazine Archive
We could even see the tall waving poplars of our own estancias, and away westward a vast rolling prairie of pampa land, bounded by the distant sierras.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Gordon Stables
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