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chalchiuhtentetl.

Headword: 
chalchiuhtentetl.
Principal English Translation: 

green stone lip plug
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.

Orthographic Variants: 
chalchiuhtētetl
Attestations from sources in English: 

chalchiuhtilmahtli = "Green-stone cape"
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), 185.

themes: 
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments
Stones, Masonry
Textiles, Clothing
Turquoise, Greenstone/Jade