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azulejo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
azulejo.
Principal English Translation: 

glazed tile

Attestations from sources in English: 

yhuan inic omotlali yn açulexo yn icpac lanterna yn icpac ca yn media naranxa yn omomacac yn ipatiuh matlactli omome pesos yhua chiquasen tomin. = “And when the glazed tiles were placed on the top of the linternilla that is on top of the dome, 12 pesos and 6 reales were given for their price” (Townsend ed. 2010: 146). [annals (AP); time range: 1689]
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), 94-95.