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tlachichiuhtli.

Headword: 
tlachichiuhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

something embellished, adorned, forged, counterfeit (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachihchīuhtli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtʃihtʃiːwtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlachichiuhtli. cosa aderezada y atauiada, o cosa fingida y falsa, assi como moneda contrahecha o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 117r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLACHIHCHĪUH-TLI something embellished, adorned, forged, counterfeit / cosa aderezada y ataviada, o cosa fingida y falsa, así como moneda contrahecha o cosa semejante (M) [(1)Cf.46v,(1)Tp.229]. See CHIHCHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 254.