Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word estancias.
Examples
-
There were bare gas lines in many locations because the upstairs and downstairs "estancias" and the master bedroom had gas heaters.
-
There were bare gas lines in many locations because the upstairs and downstairs "estancias" and the master bedroom had gas heaters.
-
If their surprise was great, mine was greater, to find such ignorance among people who possessed their thousands of cattle, and "estancias" of great extent.
-
If their surprise was great, mine was greater, to find such ignorance among people who possessed their thousands of cattle, and "estancias" of great extent.
-
A peculiar feature of this storm was that it was not at all general; at the neighbouring "estancias" it was not felt at all, and some of the
-
If their surprise was great, mine was greater, to find such ignorance among people who possessed their thousands of cattle, and "estancias" of great extent.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
-
The surgeon Alonso López de Hinojosos, whose book Suma y recopilación de cirugia con un arte para sangrar muy útil y provechosa was published in Mexico City in 1578, wrote this work for: "those that are outside of the city in mines and estancias, towns and remote areas, who lack the convenient remedies."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
-
By 1579, and doubtless before, more than 200,000 sheep from the Querétaro region covered every September the 300 or 400 kilometers to the green meadows of Lake Chapala and the western part of Michoacán; the following May, they would return to their estancias.
-
Now he was talking about Argentina, of the great estancias on the Pampas and the gauchos, the Argentine cowpokes.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
-
Same in more austral Patagonia, in Calafate, Santa Cruz province, an historic crossroads for selling cattle and sheep, a magnet for dodgy adventurers in search of limitless estancias, and today a boutique pueblo with a totally dollarized economy.
Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.