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bulto.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
bulto.
Principal English Translation: 

in the round; often seen as part of a description of a saint's image in testaments
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
volto
Attestations from sources in English: 

yhuan nitlanahuatia yehuatzin nuestra señora de los dolores de lienso yhuan yehuatzin Sr San lucas de bulto = And I order that I am leaving Nuestra Señora de los Dolores on canvas and lord San Lucas in the round (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1762)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 141.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

San Nicolas media varatzin di volto = un Señor San Nicolás de bulto que tiene media vara (Santiago Tlatelolco, 1600)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 42–43.

themes: 
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