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alfajor.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
alfajor.
Principal English Translation: 

corn cake with brown sugar and pepper

Attestations from sources in English: 

Na quemman niyauh chan noma nochipa nechnahuatia ma nicchihchihuili alfehorez (Sullivan et al. 2016: 20). When I go home my mother always has me make alfajor cakes for her. [vocabulary (TCV); time range: 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 73-74.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking