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sacabuche.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
sacabuche.
Principal English Translation:
a sackbut, a horn instrument introduced by Europeans, a forerunner of the slide trombone
(a loanword from Spanish)
Orthographic Variants:
sacapuch
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents sacabuche in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
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