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agostar.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
agostar.
Principal English Translation:
summer pasturing
Attestations from sources in English:
yvan mispantiz in audiençia rreal y nican agustar yc quichiva Espanolme çenca yc motolinia maçevalli amo quiça yn axcan. =“And it will be set forth to the Royal Audiencia that the commoners are much afflicted by the summer pasturing which the Spaniards carry on here and that it has not come to an end yet” (Lockhart, Berdan & Anderson eds. 1986: 121). [municipal council records (TA 192); time range:1562]