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pintor.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
pintor.
Principal English Translation: 

painter
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn achtopa oquimocopinilicah yn maestroz yn tlapallaCuiloque pintores amo yuhcatzintli omoquixti yn itlaÇoxayacatzin = The first time the master artisans, the painters, had made a copy of him, his precious face did not come out as a good likeness
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.

themes: 
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