Headword:
ixquemitl.
Principal English Translation:
a special skirt or shift given as a gift to the parents of a newborn girl (see Sahagún)
Attestations from sources in English:
intla cioatl, cueitl, vipilli: aҫo cenqujmjlli, aҫo onqujmjlli. Injn itoca ixquemjtl = if [the baby] were female, [with] skirts, shifts, perhaps twenty or forty. The name of this was ixquemitl (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
See also cama ixquemitl, referring to a bed cloth.