[Sp., f. estancia: see prec.] The keeper of an estancia; a cattle-farmer (in Spanish America).

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1845.  Darwin, Voy. Nat., viii. (1876), 149. An estanciero told me.

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1890.  ‘G. Stables,’ in Boy’s Own Paper, 1 Feb., 278/1. We were old estancieros.

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