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tetzauhcihuatl.

Headword: 
tetzauhcihuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a scandalous woman

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 56.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tetzauhcihuatl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

in tetzauhcioatli, ca tetlaxinqui tepaniani, auilli camanalli, uetzquiztli, netopeoalli = The scandalous woman is an adulteress, a practiser of adultery. [She merits] laughter, ridicule, sneers, mockery. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 56.