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derrama.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
derrama.
Principal English Translation: 

a tax extracted for a certain purpose; a seasonal or extraordinary contribution
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

oquixtilli (sic) macehualli terama (Huejotla, 1634)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 7.

themes: 
Markets, Commerce, Economy
Tributes, Taxation, Service