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texoctic.

Headword: 
texoctic.
Principal English Translation: 

blue (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
texotic, texuctic
Attestations from sources in English: 

yn itlatquj catca texotic = her array was blue
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 43.

texuctica tlacuiloli = painted blue
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 114.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

texoctic = azul
Antonio Vázquez Gastelu, Arte de lengua mexicana (Puebla de los Angeles, México: Imprenta Nueva de Diego Fernández de León, 1689), 32r.

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