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pardo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
pardo.
Principal English Translation: 

dark in color; brown, gray
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

se burrito pardo = a gray burro
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 438–439.