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tlacuezoani.

Headword: 
tlacuezoani.
Principal English Translation: 

a storyteller, or a talker (see attestations); also, judging by the definition of tlacuezoliztli, this could be a person who causes trouble or tumults (SW)

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlaquezoani = cuentero, hablador
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citando a Cortés y Zedeño (1765); https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlacuezoani/33579.

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