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pañizuelo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
pañizuelo.
Principal English Translation: 

a small cloth, such as a handkerchief or a napkin (see attestations); in the one attestation we have, there is no tilde over the n, but it would have one today: https://tureng.com/en/spanish-english/pa%C3%B1izuelo

Attestations from sources in English: 

matlactli omome valas panizuelos = twelve varas [of cloth for] napkins
Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra, 2021, 132 and 164.

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