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ichcahuipilli.

Headword: 
ichcahuipilli.
Principal English Translation: 

a short, padded and quilted jacket-like cotton or wool armor (sleeveless and sometimes had ties in front); or, a closed, pull-on, either an undecorated garment reaching to the top of the thigh, or a decorated one reaching to the mid-thigh; wooly huipiles

Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005),103.

Orthographic Variants: 
ichcauipilli
Alonso de Molina: 

ichcauipilli. armas colchadas para la guerra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 32r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

From ichcatl (cotton) and huipilli (blouse).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn tholteca yn icxicouatli yn quetzalteueyac yzcatqui yn intepan yn nauhcan ynic tlamaceuhque = He aquí los linderos, y las cuatro partes en las que hicieron penitencia los tolteca Icxicouatl y Quetzalteuyac…. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 158, 156.

…yn ichcauipilzoltzitzintin yn tlauitolzoltzitzintin…. = …los ichcauipilli viejos, los arcos viejos…. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 155, 156.