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tezcatlalli.

Headword: 
tezcatlalli.
Principal English Translation: 

the powder made by grinding mirror-like stones; a polishing substance
See the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, 216r. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/216r/images/0

Attestations from sources in English: 

The use of -tlalli to refer to this powder or sand is not unusual. The Florentine Codex has other examples, such as apetztlalli (what Anderson & Dibble translated as "iron pyrite earth"), on this same folio, and temetztlalli (ground lead) on folio 215 verso. (SW)

themes: 
Stones, Masonry
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See also: 
apetztlalli.
temetztlalli.
teoxalli.