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Vintena

  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.

Trombeta

  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.

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