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trompa mayor.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
trompa mayor.
Principal English Translation: 

a wind instrument
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Martín Cortés had twins, and when they were baptized in Tlaxcala in 1566 they were carried to the church on a dais. At that time the people who paid tribute to the Marqués came to watch the baptism. The lords of Cuernavaca attended, too, bringing their flags and their wind instrument, the "trompa mayor." (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 148–149.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh yn ixq'[ui]chtin ymacehualhua[n] marq[ue]s moch vallaque in tlatoque tlachichihuaco in quauhnahuaca auh moch q'[ui]hualcuique yn invandera yhua[n] intlapitzal trompa ma[y]or = Y todos los macehuales del Maqués vinieron, los señores quauhnahuacas vinieron a adornar, todos trajeron su bandera y su instrumento de viento, la trompa mayor. (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 148–149.