Also fazende. [Pg. fazenda = Sp. hacienda.] An estate or large farm. Also the home-stead belonging thereto.
1825. A. Caldcleugh, Trav. S. Amer., II. xvii. 185. The few fazendas in the neighbourhood were all occupied in pressing the sugar cane.
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., ii. (1873), 24. On such fazêndas as these the slaves pass happy lives.
1846. G. Gardner, Trav. Brazil, 522. The Fazenda of Padre Correa is situated in a hollow surrounded by bare hills.
