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texancalli.

Headword: 
texancalli.
Principal English Translation: 

like the calpixcalli, this was a house where majordomos and stewards were housed; these men fed the rulers (see Sahagún)

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Calpixcalli, texancalli, vncã cenqujçaia: in jxqujch calpixquj, ioan tequjtquj = Calpixcalli or Texancalli: there assembled all the majordomos and tribute gatherers (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), 44.