hacendados
- plural of hacendado.
Example Sentences
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His potent backers were Chile's hacendados, the Agrarians. whose previous man had been President Alessandri.
From Time Magazine Archive
She paid him, alighting, with a clasp of her hand that left its soft clinging pressure tingling after she disappeared in the crowd of rancheros and hacendados, Sebastien’s retainers and friends, who filled the station.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman
They were levying regular tolls on the rancheros and hacendados when Don Sebastien returned from his schooling.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman
It was amusing to find this village, hardly larger than many a one about the home of Mexican hacendados, the capital of a State.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson
The half liking that you deal out to Anton, Javier, and other fat-jowled hacendados, your admirers, would never do for me.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman
