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tlecuazco.

Headword: 
tlecuazco.
Principal English Translation: 

hearth (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1959), 5.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlequazco
Attestations from sources in English: 

in oacique itoalnepantla: niman ie ic copaltemalo in tlêquazco = When they arrived in the middle of the courtyard, thereupon copal was cast in the hearth. (16th century, Mexico City)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, Book 9—The Merchants, trans. Charles E. Dubble and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Santa Fe, New Mexico; The School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1959), 5.

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