Word: ranchos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RANCHO, originally a Spanish-American word, signifying a hunting lodge, or cattle-station, in a wood or desert far from the haunts of man. In Washington, with their accustomed ingenuity in corrupting words and meanings, the Americans use the appellation for a place of evil report...