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cempohualipilli.

Headword: 
cempohualipilli.
Principal English Translation: 

four hundred cloths, mats, pieces of paper, tortillas, etc. (thin and flat things)

Orthographic Variants: 
cempoalipilli
Alonso de Molina: 

cempoalipilli. quatrocientas mantas, esteras, pliegos de papel, o tortillas. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 16v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

This is 20 x 20. See our headword ipilli to understand the construction, or see caxtolipilli (15 x 20, or 300).

themes: 
Numbers, Math
Textiles, Clothing