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figura.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
figura.
Principal English Translation: 

figure
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yzcatlqui ça motaz chivey puntus ypal cando te orcano y pausa yuan tlapualizti y ezpraçion yua b: bicuras = Aquí se verán ocho puntos referentes a la polifonía. La pauss y el contar, la respiración y figuras. (seventeenth-century Guatemala)
Fernando Horcasitas y Alfred Lemmon, "El Tratado de Santa Eulalia: un manuscrito musical náhuatl," Tlalocan 12 (1997), 110–111.