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provisión real.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
provisión real.
Principal English Translation: 

a very special order, beginning with the king's name
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ocatqui prouision rreal ynic ayac ocpa gouernatortiz (Cuernavaca, circa 1610)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 4.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

quihualquixtique setetl probiçio real yn itechpa yn quahtlali Matlalcueyetzin ynic mochi ye quimocuilia caxtilteca ynic ye mochi quitlaça quahuitl quitlacaquitizque ynic aocmo mopiquizque quimocuilizque tlali quahuitl = Sacaron para acá, una provisión real, en relación a las tierras boscosas del Matlalcueye, que todas ya se las toman para sí los castellanos, por lo cual ya tumban los árboles. Les comunicarán que ya no inventarán tomar para sí la tierra y los árboles.(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 440–441.