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aderezar.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
aderezar.
Principal English Translation: 

decorating

Attestations from sources in English: 

ycuac mochiva Reparar: ychan: Españoles: anoço: aderezar mochiva: ça no yevatl: çe tostones: ypatiuh: tlacatl çe semana (Dakin ed.1996: 40). =When repairs are made in the houses of the Spaniards, or things are touched up, one person receives one tostón per week. [petition (M 9); time range: 1572]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 66.