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tlapapalli.

Headword: 
tlapapalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a striped blanket (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑpɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlapapalli. manta listada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 131r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlapapalli (adjective) = striped, in stripes
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 165.

tlapapal ichcatl = colored cotton (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 14.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh yn cauildo mochi nalquizticatca tlapapal quachtl ynic çe sulal tlaticatca huel mahuizca catca = El cabildo todo, de lado a lado, estaba cubierto con mantas rojas, todo un solar estaba oculto, fue muy hermoso. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 420–421.