noun

Sobrado

  1. Jetty; jettied floor.
  2. Upper floor or storey of a medieval house extending beyond the floor below. This creates a sort of  upside down staircase effect, when each floor sticks further out than the floor below. See the attached picture of a house in Rua Direita, Chaves, N. Portugal.

Barreira

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

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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