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dalmática.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
dalmática.
Principal English Translation: 

vestment(s) worn by deacons in the church
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
almaticas
Attestations from sources in English: 

ome diagonos. almaticas quitlalitiaque = two deacons wearing their vestments. (central Mexico, 1612)
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), 204–205.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ometi quitlalique almaticas misachiuhqui yn quipuh y ebagelio Miguel de Pereya lecsio Agostin de lus Santos = los dos que hicieron la misa se pusieron dalmáticas. El evangelio lo leyó Miguel de Pereira y la lección Agustín de los Santos. (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), 618–619.