as in mansion
a large impressive residence
the sugar baron spared no expense in building a grand hacienda on his plantation near Cuernavaca
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Recent Examples of hacienda
The film, macabre and atmospheric from start to finish, relocates the classic folklore to an isolated hacienda in a Mexican village where a young woman has returned to bury her aunt.
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Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
Bernal’s father, Pablo, 68, who co-owns the hacienda with several family members, also joined them, as did her two Italian greyhounds, Simón and Lucas.
—Jason Chen Paulina Fi Garduño, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
Patron has its own made from agave grown on the grounds surrounding its hacienda, and Codigo 1530 recently launched its new high-end Estate Harvest Still Strength Blanco.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2022
Originally built in 1923 as stables for Edward Drummond Libbey, who made his fortune in glassware, the hacienda is one of the earliest works by Neff, best known as the designer of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks’s mansion, Pickfair.
—ELLE Decor, 18 Nov. 2022
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Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
Bernal’s father, Pablo, 68, who co-owns the hacienda with several family members, also joined them, as did her two Italian greyhounds, Simón and Lucas.
—Jason Chen Paulina Fi Garduño, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
Patron has its own made from agave grown on the grounds surrounding its hacienda, and Codigo 1530 recently launched its new high-end Estate Harvest Still Strength Blanco.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2022
Originally built in 1923 as stables for Edward Drummond Libbey, who made his fortune in glassware, the hacienda is one of the earliest works by Neff, best known as the designer of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks’s mansion, Pickfair.
—ELLE Decor, 18 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hacienda
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The Republican president had said in July when the project was announced that the ballroom would not interfere with the mansion itself.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Per a source close to Iza, to increase attendance, Chapell had invited patrons from a nearby bar, who had arrived drunk and trashed the bar area of the mansion, urinating and defecating on the marble floors.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
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In June, it was announced that the festival’s colorful founder, Jean-Pierre Blanc, would step down amid a saga that unspooled with as many twists and turns as the switchback road leading up to the villa.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
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Back were the villas and the apartments, the chauffeurs and the mistresses swaddled in foreign luxury.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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This former assistant will now be the lord of the manor, the guy with millions in the bank, the owner of the dope-watch collection.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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Ravenswood returns as the Phantom of the manor and kills the groom-to-be.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
13 Oct. 2025
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For Dhar, the ability for people with estates to opt out isn’t good enough in most cases.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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The complaints focus on the investigation into Russian election interference in 2016 and the classified documents case that involved an FBI raid at his Mar-a-Lago estate, per the Times.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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Some children were at the Miami protest with their parents, including four-year-old Ellie MacLaren, who was sitting on the grass near the Torch of Friendship flipping through a picture book of dragons and castles and placing dragon stickers on the pages.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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The castle sits atop a dramatic rocky promontory and makes for a spooky side trip for those visiting Bucharest (about a three-hour drive south).—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
18 Oct. 2025
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Where to stay More than 225-year-old palace Samode Haveli doesn’t shy away from color.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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So, the King wanting them out of palace grounds makes sense, as that could solve two problems.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
20 Oct. 2025
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