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tlatzacualli.

Headword: 
tlatzacualli.
Principal English Translation: 

a mosaic

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatzaqualli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsɑkwɑlli
Attestations from sources in English: 

ytonalochimal xiuhtica tlatzaqualli = his shield with the sun symbol is covered with a mosaic of turquoise
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 112.