"precious nobleman," denoting a nobleman of particularly high rank and illustrious birth, but also used as a term of flattery for any nobleman (p. 154); "legitimate nobleman" (p. 16) The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.