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
"We kept our promise to hold elections," said a colonel as he headed for his estancia in the countryside.
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
But inland the estancia owners and peons awoke from their doze, waited in vain for news from Montevideo.
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
The original estancias were carved from the wilderness in the early 19th century by an adventurous breed of Spanish, British, Italian and Irish immigrants.
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
They used to attack these estancias, or "hog-yards," at night.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John
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