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tlatlapalli.

Headword: 
tlatlapalli.
Principal English Translation: 

something comprised of diverse colors, multi-colored, such as a cloth or ornamental cover (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtɬɑpɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlapalli. cosa listada de diuersos colores, assi como manta o paramento. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 138v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

apollona de coronado oquicouh tlatlapallichcatl medio = Apolonia de Coronado bought some varicolored cotton for half a tomín (Culhuacan, sixteenth century)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 14.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

COANACOCHTLI ixiuhtzon itlatlapaltilma itepotzoicpal = COANACOCHTLI, su diadema de turquesas, su manta listada de colores, su asiento con espaldar (centro de México, s. XVI)
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 210—211.

themes: 
Colors
Textiles, Clothing