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custodia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
custodia.
Principal English Translation: 

monstrance of the Holy Sacrament (see attestations)
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
costodia
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

niquitohua notlatol honpohualli onmatlactli pesos nechpielia yn techcatepeca yc nicchihuato custodia sacramento icaltzin = declaro que me deben cinquenta pesos los del pueblo de Tezcatepec de la hachura de la custodia del santisimo sacramento (Ciudad de México, 1577)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 171.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)