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milchimalli.

Headword: 
milchimalli.
Principal English Translation: 

agricultural fields for the support of military activities(?), literally fields-shields

IPAspelling: 
miːltʃiːmɑlli
Attestations from sources in English: 

"army" land
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 156.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ymilchimali quihualcuique Tlaxacallan tlatoque catca = las milpas de guerra [milchimalli] que eran de los tlahtoque tlaxacaltecas (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 92–93.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Imperialism (Indigenous)
Land Tenure
War, Conflict