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coche.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
coche.
Principal English Translation: 

a coach, horse-drawn vehicle (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

callaquico cochetica = They came in a carriage (central Mexico, 1610)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 168–9.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

otlatzinpachoque ytlan yn coche auh uca hualquiz yn balaçio yn coche auh yn rey çe piltotl y mochichiuh yhuan nahui tlatoque quitlalique y maztaaxiluh quitlamachcuique y huehuetque = iban al fin del cortejo, al pie del coche. El coche salió de allá del palacio, al rey lo representó un muchacho; y cuatro tlahtoque se pusieron el aztaxilotl a imitación de los antiguos (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 550–551.