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portero.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
portero.
Principal English Translation: 

usher, doorman, guard
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yho muchivaz testigos Sancho de Rrozas yvan Miguel Tapachtli portero cabildo ynic nelli omochiho = así se haga tesstigos Sancho de Rosas y Miguel Tapachtli portero de cabildo en verdad se hizo (Tlaxcala, 1562)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en Náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (México, Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 20.

themes: 
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