feminine

1. Barbuda.
2. Silver billon coin called 'barbuda' because it featured a helmet know as 'barbuda'. These helmets resembled a beard, 'barba' in Portuguese.
3. King Fernando of Portugal minted this type of coins in 1367-1383. [Information and photo from Portugal Moedas, at: www.portugalmoedas.com.pt]

1. Gate (of walled city/town). [Pedro, 17: 183]
2. Barricade, stockade; field with stockade or pavisade where crossbowmen were trained. [João2, ch.166]

1. Maiden; unmarried girl.
2. Young lady being brought up in the house or retinue of a noblewoman. [Pedro, ch. 16: 59]

Dowry.

1. Group of twenty.
2. Homens das vintenas or Vintenas da Marinha: Royal seamen; body of chosen seamen, where among all the men fit for service one was chosen from every twenty. See:  Viterbo, Joaquim de Santa Rosa, Elucidário das palavras, termos e frases que em Portugal antigamente se usaram… Lisbon: A. J. Fernandes Lopes, 1865. Tome II, p. 271.

1. Trumpet; long trumpet; herald's trumpet.
2. Trumpeter. [João1, ch. 144]
3. Silver or brass musical instrument consisting of a long tube, often over one meter long, ending in a flare. Medieval trumpets did not have the S shape that characterized them after the Barroque period.

Tower flanking the curtain wall of a castle; outer tower.

Shields; the five shields in the Portuguese arms, coins, etc.

Death duty.

New Year presents. [Pedro, ch. 11: 18]