San Juan Capistrano

[kap-i-strah-noh]

noun

1. a city in SW California: site of old Spanish mission; known for annual return of swallows, said to occur on March 19.

Example Sentences

Novelist Judith Krantz, who is a founding patron of a new center for decorative arts in San Juan Capistrano, has lingered among the shopping and sunning lanes of the Orange Riviera in her research and found them to her liking.

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Grijalva currently works with large developers to make master plan communities with thousands of dwellings — such as Rancho Mission Viejo in the hills above San Juan Capistrano — as fire-resistant as possible, while also including the aesthetic and cooling benefits of trees such as oaks and sycamores.

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They robbed stores along the way and murdered a German shopkeeper in San Juan Capistrano.

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Service on the oceanside rail — which extends from Dana Point in south Orange County to the southernmost stops in San Diego County, including San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano and Oceanside — is set to resume June 7, according to an Orange County Transportation Authority update.

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Due to the closures that began Monday, Metrolink’s Orange County and Inland Empire-Orange County train routes will temporarily begin and end at the Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo Station — completely shuttering service to the lines’ four most southern stops: San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente, San Clemente Pier and Oceanside.

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