OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1886

hacienda

/ˌhæsiˈɛndə/
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hacienda
A large homestead in a ranch or estate, usually in places where Colonial Spanish culture has had architectural influence.
The hot day was over, and the light failing rapidly, when Appleby, who had just finished comida, sat by a window of the hacienda San Cristoval with an English newspaper upon his kn…
The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-bl…
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