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polvo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
polvo.
Principal English Translation: 

powder, dust; gunpowder
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

oquitemacaya polboz ynic ynca omocacayahua pipiltoton = He gave out powders by means of which he took advantage of small children
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), 150–151.