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cardas.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cardas.
Principal English Translation: 

carders (to prepare wool or cotton for for spinning) (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
calax
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yei lienços yn cetzin la Virgen del Rosario yhuan yn occetzin San Salvador auh ynn occetzim la Virgen de Guadalupe yhuan centel calax = tres lienzos, una Virgen del Rosario, y un San Sanvador, y una Virgen de Guadalupe, y unas cardas (Santiago Tlatelolco, 1600)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 40–41.

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