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a tailor, a seamstress (plural: tlatzonque)
See an image that represents tlatzonqui in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
in tlatzonqui, tlatlaliani, tlaimatini: tlatecqui, tlatequini tlatzomani = The tailor [is] a fitter, a skilled man, a cutter, a trimmer - a practiser [sic] of tailoring. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Pablo Hernández was a tlatzonqui (tailor) of late sixteenth-century Tula.
yn tlatzonque in q[ua]uhxinque in tetzotzonque in centetl
semana nahui p[es]os in quinextia = los sastres, los carpinteros, los canteros; [dijeron] que cada
semana ganaban cuatro pesos
(ca. 1582, Mexico City)
yeyxti nima otlayahualoque sachristanestin yhua tlatzoque tocinerosti = Luego hicieron procesión tres clases de personas: los sacristanes, los sastres, y los tocineros (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)