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chichihuame.

Headword: 
chichihuame.
Principal English Translation: 

nursemaids (see Sahagún)

Attestations from sources in English: 

iehoantin in jnnaoan, in jntaoan qujmjzcaltia, qujnoapaoa, anoço chichioame in qujnoapaoa in oc pipiltotonti = Their mothers and fathers nourished and raised them, or nursemaids raised them while they were still small children (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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, 1951), 71.