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ocotentehuitl.

Headword: 
ocotentehuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of clothing for dressing the deceased, something that could be set on fire

(late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, central Mexico)
Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, Relación del Origen de los Indios que Habitan Esta Nueva España segun sus Historias, 433.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ocotentehuitl = ropa encendida alumbradora (fines del s. XVI o principios del s. XVII; México central)
Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, Relación del Origen de los Indios que Habitan Esta Nueva España segun sus Historias, 433.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Textiles, Clothing