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tlaoctaca anoni.

Headword: 
tlaoctaca anoni.
Principal English Translation: 

a "yard" for measuring something; or, a sampler, an example of something for a demonstration (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlaoctaca anoni. vara para medir algo, o dechado de donde sacan labor, o muestra &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 129v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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