presidio

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings

From Spanish presidio (“garrison”), from Latin praesidium, 1763. Doublet of praesidium and presidium.

He was taken to the military hospital at the Presidio. — Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, Trumbull White
He wrote us soldier letters from the Presidio, and from mid-ocean, and from the picket-line in front of Manila. — In Our Town, William Allen White
Ha! from the famed Presidio that guards the Golden Gate Come Funston and his regulars to match their strength with Fate. — Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two, Various

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