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techilnahuayo.

Headword: 
techilnahuayo.
Principal English Translation: 

a distinctive red fringe

Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, and see pp. 220–221.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

XILOTZIN icozoyahualol ixiuhtilma techilnahuayo itepotzoicpal = XILOTZIN, su escarapela amarilla, su manta color turquesa, festón rojo en la orilla, su asiento con espaldar (centro de México, s. XVI)
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 220—221.

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