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caliticcihuatl.

Headword: 
caliticcihuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

the [leading] woman in the house (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh ynin tlahcateotzin tlahtohuani tlatilolco conitlan yn xiuhtomiyauhtzin huel icaliticcihuauh quichiuh ye omito ynin cihuapilli ychpochtzin yn aculmiztli tlahtohuani cohuatl ychan = And this Tlacateotzin, ruler of Tlatelolco, asked for Xiuhtomiyauhtzin; he indeed made her the [leading] woman of his house. It has already been said that this noblewoman was a daughter of Acolmiztli, ruler of Coatl Ichan. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 112–113.