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descalzo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
descalzo.
Principal English Translation: 

barefoot; see also Descalzos (referring to a group of friars linked to the Franciscans)
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
descalso, descalço
Attestations from sources in English: 

in cenca mahuiztililoni tlaçoteopixque Carmenitas descalsos, = the very reverend precious friars the Discalced Carmelites, (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.

ce teopixqui descalso. yn ompa quihualhuicaque Jabon. quinhualnahuatlahtalhuitia = a Discalced friar whom they brought from Japan, who came to interpret for them (central Mexico, 1610–1611)
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), 172–3.