Definition of Hacendado

1. [n -DOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hacendado

habnab
haboob
haboobs
habotai
habromania
habronaemiasis
habtm
habu
habundant
habundaunt
habus
haceck
hacecks
hacek
haceks
hacendado (current term)
hacendados
hacheck
hachecks
hachek
hacheks
hachement
hachimycin
hachis
hachoo
hachure
hachured
hachures
hachuring
hacienda

Literary usage of Hacendado

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The People of Mexico: Who They are and how They Live by Wallace Thompson (1921)
"Beginning at the top, we find that the hacendado usually worked with practically no capital except the credit of his hacienda. Where he needed money for ..."

2. Mexico in Transition from the Power of Political Romanism to Civil and by William Butler (1892)
"The owner, called a hacendado, fixed the rate of wages and required the peons to draw their supplies from his store, giving him a double profit on their ..."

3. Resources and Development of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1893)
"If the hacendado is unable to procure the money, he must lose his crops; if he accepts the inevitable and pays the sums demanded, he makes of himself a ..."

4. Vagabonding Down the Andes: Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot by Harry Alverson Franck (1917)
"I recalled the plump hospitality of many a similar hacendado of Peru, but was quickly reminded that we were in Bolivia. Our " paisanos" had already eaten. ..."

5. Trading with Mexico by Wallace Thompson (1921)
"... and also can cultivate a little corn-plot lent him by the hacendado and renewed each year. Now the Indian, despite the fortunes which have been made by ..."

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