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cuauhpapatlacyo.

Headword: 
cuauhpapatlacyo.
Principal English Translation: 

flying eagle design
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), 188.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Seen as cuauhpapatlacyo tilmahtli = the cape with the flying eagle design (Olko cites the Primeros Memoriales 55v.)
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), 188.

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