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cojín.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cojín.
Principal English Translation: 

a cushion
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
coxin
Attestations from sources in English: 

quinepantlahuitiaque yn tlahtocacorona real quinapalotia ce tlacatl coxin ypan manria çan ye ynmamanian yn mantiaque. = They placed in their midst as they went the royal crown; someone was carrying it on a cushion. They all went along in the same places as before. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 212–213.

ypan ça coxin = sobre un cojín (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 366–367.