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ornamento.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
ornamento.
Principal English Translation: 

an ornament, often in a church
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

çe ornamento ystac damasco CaSula yhuan armati oc çe ornamento morado no yCa CaSulla yCa armatica yhuan çe frontal chichiltic = an ornament of white damask, a chasuble with a vestment; and another purple ornament, also with a chasuble with a vestment, and a crimson altar hanging.
(San Miguel Aticpac, Toluca Valley, 1711)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 70.

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Religion (Christian)