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ocotoch tilmatli.

Headword: 
ocotoch tilmatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a bobcat or other wildcat-skin cape (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
vcutocheatilmatli
Alonso de Molina: 

ocotoch tilmatli. manta de martas, o de otros animales semejantes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 75v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ocotochehuatilmahtlil = bobcat skin 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), 206.