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zoyacalli.

Headword: 
zoyacalli.
Principal English Translation: 

1) a palm-leaf wrap worn to protect a person in heavy rain;
2) a palm-leaf cone-shaped object that may have contained silk or cocoons from which silk could be made (see Codex Sierra, plate 53, https://bidilaf.buap.mx/objeto.xql?id=48281&busqueda=Texupan&action=search

Orthographic Variants: 
zuyacal
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

zoyacalli: cobertura de paja
Antonio de Ciudad Real, ‎Víctor M. Castillo Farreras, ‎y Josefina García Quintana Tratado curioso y docto de las grandezas de la Nueva España (1976), clxxxvi.

"Zoyacalli. Del nahuatl zoyatl, palma, y calli, casa, abrigo. El zoyacal, llamado por alteración del vocablo zuyacal, es el capisayo que usaban los indígenas para protegerse de la lluvia, sustituido hoy por una tela plástica."
Seminario de Integración Social Guatemalteca, Publicación no. 31, p. 74.

See also: 
zoyatl.
calli.