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zoyacalli.
Headword:
zoyacalli.
Principal English Translation:
1) a palm-leaf wrap worn to protect a person in heavy rain;
2) a palm-leaf cone-shaped object that may have contained silk or cocoons from which silk could be made (see Codex Sierra, plate 53, https://bidilaf.buap.mx/objeto.xql?id=48281&busqueda=Texupan&action=search
Orthographic Variants:
zuyacal
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
zoyacalli: cobertura de paja
"Zoyacalli. Del nahuatl zoyatl, palma, y calli, casa, abrigo. El zoyacal, llamado por alteración del vocablo zuyacal, es el capisayo que usaban los indígenas para protegerse de la lluvia, sustituido hoy por una tela plástica."