mordomos

Updated: May 21, 2025

In the morning, all the women and girls, dressed in white gauze chemises and showy calico print petticoats, went in procession to church, first going the round of the town to take up the different "mordomos," or stewards, whose office is to assist the Juiz of the festa.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons