intendency
Americannoun
plural
intendenciesExample Sentences
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During the night of the 28th September 1759, a district of three or four square miles, situated in the Intendency of Valladolid, in Mexico, was raised up, like an inflated bladder.
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On the next night they reached Montreal and were lodged at the intendency, the official residence of the hospitable Bigot.
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