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achcauhcalli.

Headword: 
achcauhcalli.
Principal English Translation: 

the house of the ruler's executioners (see Sahagún)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Achcauhcalli vncan catca in achcacauhti in tiacahoan in jtemjcticaoan catca tlatoanj = Achcauhcalli: there were the constable, the brave warriors who were the ruler's executioners (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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, 1951), 43.

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