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matlahuacalli.

Headword: 
matlahuacalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of net (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
matlauacalli
IPAspelling: 
mɑtɬɑwɑkɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

matlauacalli. red de cacaxtles.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 53v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"...la red matlahuacalli (característica de los dioses Mixcoatl y Amimitl...." (p. 92)
Katarzyna Mikulska, "Te hago bandera... Signos de banderas y sus significados en la expresión gráfica nahua", en Los códices mesoamericanos: registros de religión, política y sociedad, Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio y Juan José Batalla Rosado, coordinadores (Zinacantepec: El Colegio Mexiquense, 2016), 85–133.