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fábrica.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
fábrica.
Principal English Translation: 

factory; also, a name for a tax
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

fabrican (tax name) (Tepemaxalco, 1659)
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. 8.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ytlanahuatilzin rey Castilan quititito fiscal de rey Mexico ynic amo mochihuaz tiezmos primicias yhua bablica = mandamiento de nuestro tlahtoani rey de Castilla. Lo fueron a mostar al fiscal del rey en México para que no se paguen diezmos, primicias, ni fábrica. (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 y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 330–331.

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