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tlachichintli.

Headword: 
tlachichintli.
Principal English Translation: 

a "smoking cane that the Indians suck on" (see Molina); possibly a cigar-like tube with tobacco? (SW)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtʃitʃiːntɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlachichintli. caña de zahumerio que chupan los indios, o cosa embeuida.
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.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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