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ixchachacuachihuiztli.

Headword: 
ixchachacuachihuiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a condition of roughness of the facial skin

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 143.

Orthographic Variants: 
Ixchachaquachiviztli, ixchachaquachihuiztli
Attestations from sources in English: 

Ixchachaquachiviztli: ipaio totonquj axixtli ic nexamjloz: njman chilcoztli ic nexaoaloz = Roughness of the face: As its cure, the face is washed with hot urine; then the face is smeared with [powdered] yellow chili. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 143.

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