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sacristán.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
sacristán.
Principal English Translation: 

a person who works in the church
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
sachristan
Attestations from sources in English: 

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)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 27, 168–169.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yeyxti nima otlayahualoque sachristanestin yhua tlatzoque tocinerosti = Luego hicieron procesión tres clases de personas: los sacristanes, los sastres, y los tocineros (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), 338-339.