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San Ildefonso

American  
[sahn eel-de-fawn-saw] / sɑn ˌil dɛˈfɔn sɔ /

noun

  1. a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace La Granja; treaty 1800.


San Ildefonso British  
/ san ildeˈfɔnso /

noun

  1. Also called: La Granja.  a town in central Spain, near Segovia: site of the 18th-century summer palace of the kings of Spain

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In keeping with tradition, the winning numbers are called out by children from Madrid’s San Ildefonso school in a nationally televised draw at Madrid’s Teatro Real opera house.

From Seattle Times Dec. 22, 2022

Residents who evacuated from their flooded homes sit on a roadside after Super Typhoon Noru, in San Ildefonso, Bulacan province, Philippines, September 26, 2022.

From Reuters Sep. 27, 2022

In an article that appeared recently in El Palacio, the magazine of the Museum of New Mexico, Hendricks writes that only 85 of the 140 residents at San Ildefonso Pueblo survived the epidemic.

From Washington Times Mar. 24, 2020

A more contemporary vision of Mexico appears in this handsomely printed overview of an exhibition I saw this summer at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City.

From New York Times Dec. 14, 2017

Thus, no man saying them nay, they arrived at the Hermitage of San Ildefonso.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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