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tlapallacuilo.

Headword: 
tlapallacuilo.
Principal English Translation: 

a painter; or, a painter who uses red paint
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlapallacuilo/187780

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapalacuilo
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"Yoan nicteneua tlapallacuilo itoca Matheo Cornelio centetl teixiptla tilmantli quiectilia = Yten declaro que un pintor (tlapallacuilo) que se llama Cornelio tiene una ymagen en lienzo para renovar...."
Luis Reyes García, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (1996), 193.

themes: 
Colors
Writing, Literacy
See also: 
tlapallacuiloa.
tlapallacuiloque.
tlapallacuilolpan.