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nemapopohualoni tilmatli.

Headword: 
nemapopohualoni tilmatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a hand cloth (see Molina); but the tilmatli addition suggests it could be big, even like a cloak

Orthographic Variants: 
nemapopoaloni tilmatli
Alonso de Molina: 

nemapopoaloni tilmatli. paño de manos, o touaja.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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