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Ledesma.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Ledesma.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish surname carried, for example by don Fray Bartolomé de Ledesma, bishop of Oaxaca, a Dominican friar

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
see 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), 28–29.