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cepillo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cepillo.
Principal English Translation: 

a brush
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn Juan Miguel nicmaca I azhuela yhuan I ciera huey yhuan I tepiton yhuan I sontera yhuan I cepillo yhuan I quilame yhuan I canalor I sontera tepiton escopro III yhuan copichtic [II] yhuan I lima tepoztli yc mochichique y I parena yhuan I tlaltepoztli = Juan Miguel le doy una azuela, una sierra grande y una chica, una sontera [contera], un cepillo y una quilame [guillame], un canalor [acanalador], una sontera chica, tres escoplos y dos acanaldos, y una lima de fierro con que frota, una parena [barrena] y un azadón (Cuernavaca, 1597)
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), 304–305.