cenzontli

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cenzontli

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of centzontle
    • 1845, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Montezuma, the Serf, or the Revolt of the Mexitli, volume 2, page 18:
      likening thee to some huge condor of the Cotopal peak making love to the singing cenzontli.
    • 1855, Alice Cary, Poems, page 373:
      Or shall the soft cenzontli hush its song