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Predicadores.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Predicadores.
Principal English Translation: 

another name for the Dominican friars
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 204–205.

Orthographic Variants: 
descalços
Attestations from sources in English: 

in cenca mahuiztililoni teopixque in moteneuhtzinohua predicadores. yn itlaçopilhuantzitzinhuan totlaçomahuiztatzin, S. Domingo. Patriarcha, = the very reverend friars called Preachers, the precious children of our precious father Santo Domingo the patriarch. (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), 204–205.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)