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carroza.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
carroza.
Principal English Translation: 

a large coach, richly adorned (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
carosa, carrosa
Attestations from sources in English: 

ohualmoquixti yn don fruto yn itec carrosa (Puebla, circa 1680–1700)
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. 9.

auh yn omoceup yca carroz = they returned in carriages
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 116–117.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

mochi cauildo ytech carosa mochitin yaque = Todo el cabildo fue en carrozas. (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), 466–467.

themes: 
Transportation, Travel