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casulla.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
casulla.
Principal English Translation: 

a chasuble(s), religious garment

Orthographic Variants: 
caxolla, caxola, casula
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh yni caxolla mayol yhua yn occe caxola yhua yn calis = dos casullas y un cáliz (San Francisco Temascalapan, Edo de México, 1598)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 310–311.