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quince.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
quince.
Principal English Translation: 

fifteen
(a loanword from Spanish) (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
quinse
Attestations from sources in English: 

tlali alahuerta moconponeroa de quinse baras y uno qta yc patlahuac = orchard land composed of fifteen and a quarter varas wide
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 440–441.

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