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arma reales.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
arma reales.
Principal English Translation: 

royal coat of arms

Attestations from sources in English: 

hualathui yn omoteneuh biernes huel ypan matlactlomome oras quipilusquia balaçio caltipac y catqui armas reales (Zapata y Mendoza 1995: 418). =At dawn, on the aforementioned Friday, exactly at 12 o’clock, they were going to hang him from the top of the palace, where the royal coat of arms is. [annals (ZM); time range: 1669]
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), 87.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance