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zacaquemitl.

Headword: 
zacaquemitl.
Principal English Translation: 

seems to be a ritual bib made from zacatl (or zacate in Mexican Spanish), meaning hay, straw, grass
Seen in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 790 recto, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=654&st=image

Orthographic Variants: 
zacaquen
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents zacaquemitl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).