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texauhqui.
Headword:
texauhqui.
Principal English Translation:
one who paints people's faces, decorates them, shaves them (SW)
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents texauhqui in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
The possibility of face paint comes from the verb xahua in the reflexive.
someone adorned according to the ancient fashion: "Cette distinction n'est cependant pas très sure car un glyphe de la Matrícula de Huexotzinco annoté texauhqui (te-xauhqui, de te: «préfixe indéfinie de personne» et xauhqui: «orné suivant la mode antique») présente une tête d'homme."
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
ninoxahua = afeitarse la cara
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