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Barca

  1. Barge, boat.
  2. Barcas de Almada: barges from Almada. [Fernando, Prologue: 109]
  3. Ponte de barcas: bridge of boats. [Fernando, 35: 14]

Galé

  1. Galley. 
  2. Galé do haver / galee do aver : treasury galley. [Pedro, ch. 37: 46]
  3. Galé grossa: broad galley. [Pedro, ch. 15: 96; ch. 24: 62]

 

Maravedi

  1. Maravedi; Spanish maravedí
  2. Coin of Arabic origin, current in the Iberian Peninsula in medieval times.
  3. Pension; grant [Pedro, ch. 5: 49]; allowance [Pedro, ch. 13: 40]

Aposentador

  1. Lodging officer. (CW) [Pedroch. 8: 38]
  2. Person in charge of the travel arrangements of the king and court, and respective accommodation. See Rita Costa Gomes, The Making of a Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medieval Portugal (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2003), pp. 37-38.

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