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chilhuac.

Headword: 
chilhuac.
Principal English Translation: 

a dried, smoked chili pepper (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chīlhuāc, chilhuactli, chiluactli
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːlwɑːk
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪLHUĀC dried, smoked chili pepper / chilpocle (Z) [(1)Zp.152]. M has chiluacmulli ‘sauce or stew seasoned with smoked chilies.’ See CHĪL-LI, HUĀQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 51.

Attestations from sources in English: 

chiluactli = a wide dried chile pepper (Tlaxcala, 1545)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 34, 210–211.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
See also: 
chilhuacmolli.
huacqui.