plural

Qualities (includingcharacter, virtues, faults, aspects of the personality, things that make a person what he/she is).

1. Men.
2. Forces; troops (large body of soldiers). (CW)
3. Gentes da cidade: City-folk, city dwellers. [João1, ch. 133]
    

1. Men.
2. Forces; troops (large body of soldiers). (CW)
    

1. Kightly virtues.
2. A knight, a nobleman, or a king, all must and want to 'ser bom', and to be worthy of praise for their 'bondades'.

1. Gear (nautical).(PK)
2. Sails and rigging.

1. Townships (towns and cities). (CW)
2. Places (when referring to non-specific locations). (CW)

1. Mace-carrying soldier.
2. Bodyguard (as a mace was considered a short-range protection weapon).
3. 'Besteiro' was a soldier serving with a crossbow (bèsta). There were many different types of 'besteiros' in Portugal, from 'besteiro da câmara' to 'besteiro da garrucha', 'besteiro do mar', etc. See Joaquim de Santa Rosa Viterbo, Elucidário das Palavras, Termos e Frases que em Portugal Antigamente se Usaram (Lisbon: 1865), vol. 1, pp. 132-133.

Possessions; worldly goods.

Foot soldiers.

1. Coat of plates; plate armour.
2. Armour made of iron or steel plates shaped as a flouder, the fish, solha in Portuguese.