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cihuatlahuicale.

Headword: 
cihuatlahuicale.
Principal English Translation: 

a person that has services provided by women (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua tlauicale, cihua tlahuicale
Alonso de Molina: 

ciua tlauicale. persona que tiene seruicio de mugeres.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

It is not clear whether this might include the sense of a man who frequents prostitutes for sex. Sometimes Molina was cryptic about sexual meanings.

themes: 
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction