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topal.

Headword: 
topal.
Principal English Translation: 

a person who goes about dressed strangely, curiously, and yet with presumptuousness and arrogance (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
topɑl
Alonso de Molina: 

topal. el que anda curiosa o fantasticamente vestido, con presumpcion y soberuia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 149v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.