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Carmelitas.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Carmelitas.
Principal English Translation: 

Carmelites; a Roman Catholic religious order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel founded in the 12th c.
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

in cenca mahuiztililoni tlaçoteopixque Carmenitas descalsos, = the very reverend precious friars the Discalced Carmelites, (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 204–205.

teopixque calmenitas = Augustinian friars (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 108–109.

yn achtopa yn tahuan yn intepachocahuan catca. calmenitas. descalҫos = their first fathers and governors, who were the Discalced Carmelite fathers (central Mexico, 1611)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 174–5.

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Religion (Christian)