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Estancia

Estancia \Es*tan"ci*a\ ([asl]s*t[.a]n"th[-e]*[.a]), n. [Sp. See Stanza.] A grazing farm; a country house. [Spanish America]

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estancia

n. (context of Latin America English) A large rural estate; a kind of ranch.

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Estancia, NM -- U.S. town in New Mexico
Population (2000): 1584
Housing Units (2000): 487
Land area (2000): 5.704909 sq. miles (14.775646 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.022047 sq. miles (0.057101 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.726956 sq. miles (14.832747 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25380
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 34.760380 N, 106.060748 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 87016
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Estancia
Estancia is also a verse form in Spanish poetry.

An estancia (American Spanish: ) or estância is a Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese term describing private landholdings. In some areas, they were large rural complexes with similarities to what in the United States is called a ranch. They are large farms which are spread over extensive areas, often 10,000 ha Estancias in the southern South American grasslands, the pampas, have historically been estates used to raise livestock (cattle or sheep).

Estancia (disambiguation)

Estancia is a Spanish term referencing a large rural estate. It may also refer to:

Usage examples of "estancia".

Even as she kissed him, he felt one of the others, the buxom one, Estancia, slide up against him and begin sucking his right nipple.

It did not take long before Estancia was shuddering and shrieking, her hands knotted in his hair, and Freya cried out in her own release.

She was followed by Estancia, her figure straining at the red of her own deeply decollete gown.

Then Estancia slowed the pace and spread her most private lips to finger her own nub of pleasure as she pushed herself up and down over his cock.

Feelings ramped up past all endurance, and then Estancia pressed her thumb inside him.

No es unos cuantos charlatanes que aturden en los galpones de una estancia perdida.

Fieselers and the Piper might well have just dropped into the Estancia San Pedro y San Pablo for a cup of coffee and a friendly chat with our old comrade-in-arms Jorge Guillermo Frade.

Sierra Madre mountains, an old estancia converted into an agricultural research center.

It stood some distance away from the larger estancia, nestled in a tiny clearing in the trees where one would not expect any house to be.

Jaime--see that my horse is brought to the front of the estancia, if you please.

Certain that the powerful merchant would soon try to physically seize the ship, Abdullah went directly aboard her and saw her sailed some two leagues eastward along the coast to be anchored in a hidden bay near the estancia of a friend from the expeditions in Mexico.

In the evening they came to a small estancia and sat the horses at the fence.

They crossed a broad gravel riverbed dry and white in the sun and they climbed into a meadow where the grass was tall as the tires and passed under the truck with a seething sound and they entered a grove of ebony trees and drove out a nesting pair of hawks and pulled up in the yard of an abandoned estancia, a quadrangle of mud buildings and the remains of some sheep-pens.

He said that the man they called the charro had suffered from a failure of nerve out there among the ebony trees beyond the ruins of the estancia and this a man whose brother was dead at the hand of the assassin Blevins and this a man who had paid money that certain arrangements be made which the captain had been at some pains himself to make.

Ascending into the low hills they passed a small estancia and they dismounted and went afoot through the ruins of a cornfield and found some melons and sat in the stony washedout furrows and ate them.