estancia
Americannoun
noun
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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
Meantime there was no sign of the Pereyra Iraola child and in many an estancia chapel prayers went up for his safety.
From Time Magazine Archive
But inland the estancia owners and peons awoke from their doze, waited in vain for news from Montevideo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seven executive committeemen of Vargas' Labor Party flew south to his estancia to tell him that their convention would nominate him this week.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw the estancia as he’d never seen it before.
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
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
The most far-reaching legislation of all was an inheritance law that provided that each heir must get an equal share of the land, thus assuring the eventual breakdown of the huge estancias.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were other estancias along the route; sparsely scattered, it is true; but still thick enough to give me a chance of inquiring the way.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne
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