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hacendado

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ha·cen·da·do  (häsn-däd, äsn-) also ha·ci·en·da·do (häs-n-däd, äs-)
n. pl. ha·cen·da·dos also ha·ci·en·da·dos
The owner or manager of a hacienda.

[American Spanish, from Spanish hacienda; see hacienda.]


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The others are absorbed through informal mechanisms of circulation: one is taken in by the wife of the hacendado and the rest are perhaps distributed to other tenant farmer households--households that had reason to value the presence of young, unpaid dependants.
Given her physical attributes and costume, the Puerto Rican Barbie looks like the daughter of a rich Spaniard hacendado on the island.
As deputy Luis Cabrera put it in 1917: "If an Indian's vote has not the same value as one from a civilized Creole citizen, it is preferable that the votes of one hundred Indians count as much as one hacendado vote.
 
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