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(a loanword from Spanish)
a person who works in the church
(a loanword from Spanish)
See an image that represents sacristán in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
ce piltonti sachristan = a boy sacristan;
cihualtzintli ynantzin pilton sacristan = the woman who is the boy sacristan's mother (Jalostotitlan, 1611)
yeyxti nima otlayahualoque sachristanestin yhua tlatzoque tocinerosti = Luego hicieron procesión tres clases de personas: los sacristanes, los sastres, y los tocineros (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)