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tlahuan caxitl.

Headword: 
tlahuan caxitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a cup or a glass in which to drink wine (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlauan caxitl
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauan caxitl. taza o vaso para beuer vino.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 143v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

caxtil [sic]. escudilla.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 13r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlauantli (noun) = vase, cup
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 165.

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Alcohol, Hallucinogens
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