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tlacuelpacholli.

Headword: 
tlacuelpacholli.
Principal English Translation: 

folded

Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo veintiuno, 1996), 580.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacuelpacholi
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwelpɑtʃoːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacuelpacholli. cosa doblada o plegada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlacuelpacholi tlaxcali chiltecpimoli inamic = large folded tortillas with hot chili sauce (Central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 201.