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tlapalaquia.

Headword: 
tlapalaquia.
Principal English Translation: 

to apply colors onto that which is being painted (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapalaquia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑlɑkiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapalaquia. nitla. (pret. onitlatlapalaqui.) poner los colores en lo que se pinta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 130v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Cucatica oo tocontlapalaqui = Con cantos das color (de la poesía de Nezahualcóyotl)
La tinta negra y roja: Antología de poesía náhuatl, transl. Miguel León-Portilla (Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 2008), 30–31.