malcalli.

Headword: 
malcalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a place where captives or enslaved human beings were kept (see Sahagún)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Malcalli: calpixque pinpiaia, in mamalti = Malcalli: the majordomos guarded the captives (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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, 1951), 45.