Clothing

Gibão

  1. Doublet.
  2. Hip-length snug-fitting padded garment used over the shirt and under the jerkin, or cote-hardie, or under any armour for added protection and to avoid chaffing. Depending on its intended use, it could be made of finer or tougher materials. 

Estofa

  1. Arming cap.
  2. Padded coif, usually made of linen, wool, even leather, used to protect the head from chaffing against the helmet or mail coif, and to improve the fitting of the helmet.
  3. See: Mário José Silva Meleiro, '"Novidade de Palavras" no Português do século XV', Ph.D. thesis in Historical Linguistics, Universidade Clássica de Lisboa, 2011, p. 89.

Camal

  1. Camail; aventail.
  2. A mantle, usually of mail but sometimes of padded textile only or composed of small scales or plates of iron or steel, attached to the bascinet to protect the neck and shoulders. (TC)
  3. Bibl: J. Gouveia Monteiro, A Guerra em Portugal em fins da Idade Média (Lisboa: Editorial Notícias, 1998), p. 535.

Grevas

  1. Greaves; jambs.
  2. Plate armour for the shins, if worn only on the front, or for the whole lower leg if made in two enclosing pieces. (TC)
  3. In Fernando, ch.87: 62, the word "grave", probably means a glaive, since Fernão Lopes is lsting the weapons a fully equipped men-of-arms is expected to have. 

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