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tlapacqui.

Headword: 
tlapacqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a laundress, one who washes things (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlapācqui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑpɑːkki
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAPĀCQUI laundress, one who washes things / lavandera (Z) [(2)Zp.76,212]. M has synonymous tlapacani. See PĀC(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 288.

themes: 
Occupations, Responsibilities