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tlachmatl.

Headword: 
tlachmatl.
Principal English Translation: 

the walls demarcating the ball court

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer (2004), Désigne les murs qui délimitaient le terrain de jeu (tlachtli); who cites the Florentine Codex, Book 8, f. 29; https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlachmatl/66670; Engl. transl. here by Stephanie Wood

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

themes: 
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See also: 
tlachtli.
matl.