cuauhcihuatl.

Headword: 
cuauhcihuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a mature woman (literally, eagle-woman)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part II, 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), 51.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcioatl; quauhciuatl, quauhcihuatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

in quauhcioatl, tlacamelaoac.
In qualli quauhcioatl: iolletl, iollochochic, iolchichic, amo cuetlaxoani oquichtini, oquichiollo, tepitziollo, tlacemanani, auetzini, aco molpiani, aco motetziloani, tlapaccaihiiouia, tlapaccacelia, tlaoquichuia, tlatepitzuia, moiolchilia, oalixtetēmotzoloa quioalmocotonilia, quioalcotona in iollo oalmocentlanqua, mellaquaoa =
The mature woman is candid.
The good mature woman [is] resolute, firm of heart; constant — not to be dismayed; brave, like a man; vigorous, resolute; persevering — not one to falter; a steadfast worker. She is long-suffering; she accepts reprimands calmly — endures things like a man. She becomes firm — takes courage. She is intent. She gives of herself. She goes in humility. She exerts herself.
Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain, Book 10, The People, ed. and transl. Arthur J. O. Dibble and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 51.

"Nahuas giving birth to a child the title of 'warrior'. In the Florentine Codex, a midwife exhorted the pregnant woman, about to give birth, to grasp well the little shield. My daughter, my youngest one: be an eagle woman. Face it. Imitate the eagle woman, Cihuacoatl'. The reference to 'eagle woman' (quauhcihuatl) referred to the eagle designation of an acclaimed warrior."
Pete Sigal, "Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses, and the Texts of the Tlacuilos," in Historicising Gender and Sexuality, eds. Kevin P. Murphy and ‎Jennifer M. Spear (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).