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chapineschiuhcan.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
chapineschiuhcan.
Principal English Translation: 

a place where chapines (some type of shoe, perhaps clogs) are made
(partly a loanword from Spanish, chapín, possibly originally from Arabic, "chipin")

Orthographic Variants: 
chapines chiuhcan
Alonso de Molina: 

chapines chiuhcan. chapineria.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.