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huei tecpancalli.

Headword: 
huei tecpancalli.
Principal English Translation: 

royal houses or palaces of great lords (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uei tecpancalli, huey tecpancalli
Alonso de Molina: 

uei tecpancalli. casas o palacios reales y de grandes señores.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 155v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings