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tetococ.

Headword: 
tetococ.
Principal English Translation: 

a burial (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 204–205.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh mochintintzitzin Sobrepelliz. quimotlalilitiaque ynbonetestzin auh amo huel mopohua in ye mochintzitzin clerigos. oncan momaniltitiaque omoteneuh yc tetococ = They all wore a surplice and bonnet. All the secular priests going along in a group to the said burial cannot be counted, for there were very many of them. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 204–205.

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