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dean.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
dean.
Principal English Translation: 

church official who presides over the cathedral council
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ohazico totatzin dean (San Pedro Huehuetlan, Soconusco, 1565)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 30.