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calzolli.

Headword: 
calzolli.
Principal English Translation: 

an old house (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
calçolli, calçoltzintli
Alonso de Molina: 

calzolli. casa vieja.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 11r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yoan centetl caçolli (sic) = and an old (house) (testament fragment from 1579)
The Testaments of Culhuacan, eds. S. L. Cline and Miguel León-Portilla (provisionally modified first edition), on line: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 2.

By extension, acalçolli is an old boat.

nicnomaquillia ynn acalçoltzintli = And I give her the old boat
The Testaments of Culhuacan, eds. S. L. Cline and Miguel León-Portilla (provisionally modified first edition), on line: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 29.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings