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tlahuiznextia.

Headword: 
tlahuiznextia.
Principal English Translation: 

to go out on military parade; to display devices, coats of arms, emblems, insignia, in military fashion (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlauiznextia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑwisneːʃtiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauiznextia. ni. salir en alarde, o reseña.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 145r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ya[n]cuica[n] tlahuiznextilloc nica[n] tianq[ui]zco in mexica yhuan china[n]paneca = nuevamente los mexicanos y los de las chinampas mostraron las insignias aquí en el mercado (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 174–175.

tlahuiznextique in mexica = los mexicanos mostraron insignias (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 152.