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tlaolchipinilli.
Headword:
tlaolchipinilli.
Principal English Translation:
large drops of liquid rubber (olli, ulli), put on white paper flags (amatetehuitl) during a ceremony in the month of Quahuitl Ehua or Atl Cahualo, which was devoted to the rain deities
Orthographic Variants:
tlaulchipinilli
Attestations from sources in English:
Jnjc nechichioale omexaoale, amacale, olchachapanquj, tlaolchipinilli yn jamacal, yoan quetzalmjiaoaio, aiuchicaoace. = Thus was she arrayed: two spots were painted on her face; she had a paper crown; large drops of liquid rubber and small drops were spattered over her paper crown, and it had quetzal feathers arranged to resemble corn-tassels. She carried the mist-rattleboard. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)