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Letter C/CH: Displaying 3901 - 3920 of 5790

cuachichictli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachichictli

the crown of a member of the clergy (see Molina); see also our entry for cuachichictli, a word that referred to a special warrior's hairstyle

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cuachichictli.

kwɑːtʃitʃiktɬi

the hairstyle of the cuachic warriors, or the "shorn ones," and was characterized by the stiff ridge crest going along the head (sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 112.

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cuachichil.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachichil, cuachichiltic, quachichiltic

House Finch, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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cuachichiltic.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachichiltic

a bird with a red head (see Molina)

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cuachichiqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachichiqui

to make a crown for a member of the clergy (see Molina)

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cuachichiquile.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachichiquile

a bird or the like that has a feathered crest (see Molina)

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cuachichiquilli.

kwɑːtʃitʃikilli
Orthographic Variants: 
cuāchichiquilli, quachichiquilli

a feather crest (see Karttunen)

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cuachicpalli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachicpalli

a pillow or cushion (see Molina)

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cuachicuia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachicuia

to be dissolute and shameless (see Molina)

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cuāchihchīnohtic.

curly hair.
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cuachilli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachilli, quachilton, cuachilton

Common Gallinule, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); others have called it an American coot

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cuachilton.

Common Gallinule, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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cuāchipactic.

to have a very clean scalp.
# ni. Una persona que tiene canas. “Hace unos cuanto días cuando te vimos no tenias muchas canas ahora se ve más talvez porque tienes más años”.
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cuachipahua.

kwɑːtʃipɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuāchipāhua

to brush someone’s hair (see Karttunen)

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cuāchipāhuac.

1. person with gray hair. 2. animal with white streaks in their fur.
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cuachiquihuitl.

1. a high, deep basket. 2. chicken ribs.
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cuachnamacac.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachnamacac

a seller of large cotton capes

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 63.

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cuāchocōx.

person with blond hair.
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cuāchocōxtic.

person with blond hair.
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cuachpamitl.

kwɑːtʃpɑːmitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
quachpamitl, quachpanitl, cuachpanitl

a standard, a flag, or a banner (see Molina)

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