- Bench, settle, or wooden seat with a high back and armrests.
- "Praça dos Escanos" is where Lourenço Martins da Praça lived and raised Dom João, the future king, during his childhod. It was near the Lisbon cathedral. There was also a "Rua dos Escanos", according to a letter by King Afonso V dated 1453. See Sousa Viterbo, Duarte Glavão e a sua Família: para um estudo Biográfico (Lisboa: Academia Real das Ciências, 1905), p.47.
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