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contorno.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
contorno.
Principal English Translation: 

contour; shape
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

matlactli yehua se canbaleria contorno yn ca yehualli = once caballerías en contorno y circunferencia (San Marcos Tlayacac, Morelos, "1546"; no earlier than 1666)
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), 72–73.