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comedia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
comedia.
Principal English Translation: 

a play

Attestations from sources in English: 

ocatca comedias ypan calotli = There were plays in the streets.
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), 148–149.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

huehuey misa mochiuh yhuan comedia yhuan tlaminuhuac tiaquiztepitzinco = misas grandes, comedias y hubo corrida de toros
(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 and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 558–559.

themes: 
Theater, Drama