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Bravo.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
Bravo.
Principal English Translation:
a Spanish surname; the name of a Doctor who was an oidor of the Audiencia in sixteenth-century New Spain
Attestations from sources in English:
For a portrait of Doctor Bravo, see the Codex Osuna, folio 16r or Image 34.
The decipherment for the hieroglyph for the name is rather challenging. It is discussed in the Tlacuilolli blog.