Headword:
tlaquilli.
Principal English Translation:
stucco (a noun; see Molina); Olmos (1547, f. 200v) translates tlaquilli as "encalar" (to stucco, a verb); also the name of a night-blooming flower and an indirect reference to the sunset, the entering of the divinity into the house (see teotlaquilli)
IPAspelling:
tɬɑkilli
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents tlaquilli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
tlaquīlli = whitewashing
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