a la China acalli.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
a la China acalli.
Principal English Translation: 

Asian boats

Attestations from sources in English: 

Axcan lunes. yc .7. mani metztli Março de 1611 años. yhquac nican mexico. quiz. onpeuh. yn sebastian vizcayno. vezino. mexico. general mochiuhtia. yn a la china acalli yc yah vmpa a la china. = “Today, Monday, the 7th of the month of March of the year 1611, was when Sebastián Vizcaíno, citizen of Mexico, set out and left Mexico here; he was appointed the general of the China boats going to China [the Philippines]” (Chimalpahin 2006: 174). [annals (AHT); time range: 1611–1613]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 61.

themes: 
Marine, Maritime, Lacustrine