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limbo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
limbo.
Principal English Translation: 

limbo
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Ca yexcan in motetlalilia in Dios, Purgatorio, Limbo, Infierno = God puts people into three places; purgatory, limbo, and hell.
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 87.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ca yexcan in motetlalilia in Dios, Purgatorio, Limbo, Infierno = A tres lugares embia Dios las almas que van deste mundo: al Purgatorio, Limbo, ò Infierno
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 86–87.

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