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cohuacalli.
Headword:
cohuacalli.
Principal English Translation:
a place where lords gathered and received gifts from the ruler (see Sahagún)
Orthographic Variants:
coacalli, cōhuācalli
Attestations from sources in English:
Coacalli vncan tecpanoaia, in jxqujchtin, noujian tlatoque: in jicnjhoan tlatoanj, ioan in jxqujchtin, iiauhoan tlatoque = Coacalli: there were established all the lords from everywhere—friends of the ruler, and all the lords unfriendly to him (central Mexico, sixteenth century)