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tlachichihualli.

Headword: 
tlachichihualli.
Principal English Translation: 

something embellished, adorned, forget, counterfeit (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachichiualli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtʃihtʃiːwɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlachichiualli. cosa aderezada y atauiada, o cosa contrahecha, fingida y falsificada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 117r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLACHIHCHĪHUAL-LI something embellished, adorned, forged, counterfeit / cosa aderezada y ataviada, o cosa contrahecha, fingida, y falsificada (M) [(1)Cf.46v,(2)Zp.66,206]. See CHIHCHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 254.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

oquitlachichihualli = tradujo (Puebla, 1797)
Anales del Barrio de San Juan del Río; Crónica indígena de la ciudad de Puebla, xiglo XVII, eds. Lidia E. Gómez García, Celia Salazar Exaire, y María Elena Stefanón López (Puebla: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, 2000), 76–77.