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botija.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
botija.
Principal English Translation: 

earthenware jug
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
botixa
Attestations from sources in English: 

Bernardino tzapotlacatl xallah oquicouh botixa medio ypatiuh = Bernardino Tzapotlacatl of Xallah bought a jug; it cost half a tomín. (n.d., sixteenth century)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 13.

themes: 
Ceramics, Pottery