latifundiary
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- Of or pertaining to latifundia.
- 1976, Frank Safford, The Ideal of the Practical: Colombia's Struggle to Form a Technical Elite[1], University of Texas Press, page 33:
- The latifundiary regions of Boyacá contained high proportions of servants and vagrants, but so did neighboring Socorro, where land was not so much badly distributed as too scarce.
- 1986, Gilberto Freyre, translated by Samuel Putnam, The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization[2], University of California Press, page xlii:
- The Big House, although associated particularly with the sugar plantation and the patriarchal life of the northeast, is not to be looked upon as exclusively the result of sugar-raising, but rather as the effect of a slave-holding and latifundiary monoculture in general.
- 1991, Henri Lefebvre, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Production of Space, Blackwell, page 252:
- The villa of a latifundiary landowner retained not a trace of the sacred.