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tlaxilacale.

Headword: 
tlaxilacale.
Principal English Translation: 

citizen of a tlaxilacalli, sometimes an authority of a tlaxilacalli

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaxilacalle, tlaxillacale
Attestations from sources in English: 

tlaxilacaleque = people of the tlaxilacalli (Coyoacan 1572)
Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519–1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 162.

tlaxilacalle = citizen (or perhaps the leader) of the tlaxilacallli
Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700 (Norman and London: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 228.

themes: 
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods