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presidio
/pɹɪˈsɪdiˌoʊ/
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What does presidio mean?
noun
- A garrisoned place, especially one that is or was once under Spanish control.
proper noun
- A city in Presidio County, Texas, United States, on the border with Mexico.
- Synonym of Presidio of San Francisco.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹɪˈsɪdiˌoʊ/
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The first place we went to was the old ruinous presidio, which stands on a rising ground near the village, which it overlooks.
They walked for upwards of five hours that afternoon, out the length of California Street, and across the Presidio Reservation to the Golden Gate.
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It chanced that the son of Pepita, and husband of Chicharona, having spirited away a horse, was sent to the presidio of Malaga for ten years of hard labour.
On limestone hills, from the Pecos River, southwestern Texas, and southern New Mexico, westward to the Rio Grande (from Presidio del Norte northward).