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mahuichichihua.

Headword: 
mahuichichihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to compose oneself, to get fixed up (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
mauichichiua
IPAspelling: 
mɑːwitʃihtʃiːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

mauichichiua. nino. (pret. oninomauichichiuh.) componerse, o ataviarse.
mauichichiua. nitla. (pret. onitlamauichichiuh.) adornar, o ataviar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

mauichichiua (p. omauichichiuh: nino-) = componerse, arreglarse; (nitla-) = adornar, arreglaar, embellecer algo (r. mauiçoa, chichiua (s. XVI)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 264.

tlamauichichiualiztli (s. v.) = adorno, atavio, elegancia (r. mauichichiua) (s. XVI)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 612.