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pregonero.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
pregonero.
Principal English Translation: 

public crier, the person who makes public announcements

Orthographic Variants: 
pregunero
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

otzatzic in pregunero Diego Aztaxochitl yhuan mochintin ymixpan tlaxilacaleque = Diego Aztazuchitl, pregonero, dio un pregón en presencia de los mandones del barrio [tlaxilacalleque] (Ciudad de México, 1578)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 147.

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