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manto.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
manto.
Principal English Translation: 

a cloak; or, for women, a veil
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

otzatzihuac yn ihtic ciudad Mexico yn tliltique oquichti aocac espada quitecaz quihualhuicaz. yhuan cuello aocmo quitlalizque no yhui yn tliltique cihua aocmo tliltic manto quitlalizque yhuan mulatati moch quincahualtiq̃. yhuan pena yc quintlalilique. = it was proclaimed in the city of Mexico that black men were no longer to carry swords or wear [Spanish-style] collars, and likewise black women were no longer to wear black veils, and also prohibited all the mulatto women [from the same thing] and set a fine for them. (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), 214–215.

tliltic manto del coro tabetan, = a black choir cloak of taffeta, (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), 206–207.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yacuica ymatotzin totlaçonatzin nezqui tlaçotl = Nuevo manto de nuestra amada madre, fue muy hermoso (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 and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 254–5.