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apelación.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
apelación.
Principal English Translation: 

a legal appeal (see attestations, forthcoming)

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh miecpa in apelacion oticchiuhque yn oc nen yc titlacuepa aocmo veliti (Anales de Juan Bautista 2001: 212). =We made appeals many times but in vain did we try to reverse [the sentence], nothing else can be done. [annals (AJB); time range: 1564]
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), 83.