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tentzontli.

Headword: 
tentzontli.
Principal English Translation: 

beard

Attestations from sources in English: 

totẽtzõ muzcalttia veyaquia = Our beard: It grows, it becomes long (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 256.

tetentzon mochachamoaoa = Beard of noblemen: He is conceited (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 259.

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