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tlapopohuiliztli.

Headword: 
tlapopohuiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

something clean (see Karttunen); a pardon

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapohpōhuiliztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpohpoːwilistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPOHPŌHUILIZ-TLI something clean / limpia (X) [(1)Xp.93]. X fails to mark the glottal stop. See TLAPOHPŌHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 292.

Attestations from sources in English: 

oncan mochi tlacatl contennamiquia yn imatzin , ynic õcan ytechtzinco mocnopilhuiaya onpohualilhuitl yn tecentlapopolhuiliztli indulgencias. = Everyone there was kissing his hands, so that thereby they would attain forty days of general pardon, indulgences. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 200–201.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
Religion (Indigenous)