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jerga.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
jerga.
Principal English Translation: 

a piece of coarse cloth
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, 1613)
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), 234–235.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynin tottatzin cenca tillahuac ça çan queninami Zerga quimotlatlamanililia yn ihapitotzin quimotlallilitinemi yehuatl in yn tottatzin yconpadre mochiuh visurrey. = This old padre uses any old piece of very rough coarse cloth to fix up his habit that he goes about wearing. (central Mexico, 1613)
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), 234–235.

themes: 
Textiles, Clothing