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zacatilmatli.

Headword: 
zacatilmatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a grass or straw cape
Manuel Orozco y Berra, Historia antigua y de la conquista de México: 1.pte (1880, 488).

Attestations from sources in English: 

See the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs for a glyph of this type of cape. https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatilma-mh574r

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