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portería.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
portería.
Principal English Translation: 

a porter's lodge
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yquac micuillo yn tlillacuillolli tlatlapoloya[n] porteria yevatl in teoyotica ytlacamecayo S[an] Fran[cis]co = entonces se pintó la pintura negra de la portería [tlatlapoloyan] sobre la descendencia espiritual de San Francisco (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 182.