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Nopal.

Headword: 
Nopal.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name; the name of a Tlaxichca, a person of the Tecpan or the tecpantlaca (people of the palace), who were the most important group of the Totomihuaque in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 189 and note 3.