haciendas
- plural of hacienda.
Example Sentences
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These brief decades were glamorized by a huge bestseller, an 1884 novel called “Ramona,” by Helen Hunt Jackson, who had been a guest at one of the great haciendas.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2021
Those often evolved into the even larger haciendas, the size of whole states back in Europe.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
He also gives tours of the town and takes people on guided hikes, bike trips or drives to basalt cliffs, waterfalls, haciendas, hamlets and vistas.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
The Spaniards built haciendas, not unlike the ones that dominated the campos of “old” Mexico.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2014
I rode out to inspect my lands, paid a few visits to the neighboring haciendas, kept my eye on the tenants.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
