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tlaaltilli.
Headword:
tlaaltilli.
Principal English Translation:
a bathed person, a washed person; a term used for enslaved human beings who were purchased in the marketplace in Azcapotzalco, kept in locked wooden structures, made to dance on specially built houses with flat roofs (they danced on the roofs until they were sacrificed), as described in Book 9 of the Florentine Codex; taaltiltin (plural)