amatlecomitl.

Headword: 
amatlecomitl.
Principal English Translation: 

paper firepot(s); or, in Spanish, the equivalent of luminarios

Attestations from sources in English: 

aço huel ontzontli yn amatlecomitl quitecaque yn quitetecpanque. atenantitech. yn tecpan tlapanticpac = perhaps 800 paper firepots [luminarios] which they lined up on the parapet of the roof of the palace (early seventeenth century, central New Spain) 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), 86–87.