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tlapallacuilolpan.

Headword: 
tlapallacuilolpan.
Principal English Translation: 

on a colored painting or writing, a plan or map (see Sahagún)

Attestations from sources in English: 

achto oqujnemjli in tlatoanj, tlapallacujlolpan omotlali in altepetl, in poliujz = the ruler first determined, by means of painted [plan], how was placed the city which they were to destroy (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 51.