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camapantli.

Headword: 
camapantli.
Principal English Translation: 

the cheeks of the face (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

camapantli. carrillos de la cara.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

motenolcopi, tlaxapuchtli, qujmotlatalili, yn jcamapɑ̃ = liquid rubber on her lips and a circle {of rubber} on each cheek. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1950), 5.

camapantli (noun) = the cheeks, the face
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 151.

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