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tlapactli.

Headword: 
tlapactli.
Principal English Translation: 

a piece of cloth; or, something washed; or, something broken, divided; a piece, a slice

Translated from Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 632.

Alonso de Molina: 

tlapactli. cosa lauada o batanada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 130v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

cen tlapactli tlaxcalli (Car.) = a piece of bread
Translated from Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 632.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yey caxa tenticate tlapactli nauhtetl huipilli Xaltocamecayotl = tres cajas llenas de ropa, cuatro huepiles de Jaltocan (San Cristóbal Ecatepec, 1634)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 196–197.

centlapactli yuan tlaco = manta y media
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: CIESAS, 1999), 274-275.

tlapactli = lavado (de paca, lavar)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xli.

themes: 
Textiles, Clothing