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cehualcalli.

Headword: 
cehualcalli.
Principal English Translation: 

an arbor for shade (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ceualcalli
IPAspelling: 
seːwɑlkɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

ceualcalli. ramada para sombra, o miradero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 18v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in cehualcalli. ca tettzacuillia = a shady shelter protects us (central Mexico, 1611)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 178–9. (For "tetzacuillia" or techtzacuillia.")