Meaning of escudo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. shield
   masculine
2. escudo (former currency of Portugal)
   masculine
3. coat of arms
   masculine
4. a medieval local currency
   historical, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Oyde, que mandan diser noso señor El Rey por sua carta firmada de seu nome et seelada de seu seelo a todos los omees de pe fillos dalgo que viuen et están en esta çibdade, casados et por casar, de viinte anos arriba et de çincoenta a juso, que se presenten todos con suas espadas et escudos et lanças et outras armas que teueren ante Loys Garçia de Córdoua”

Hear! our lord the King orders, by his letter signed with his name and sealed with his seal, that every free man, infantryman, who lives in this city, married and unmarried, being twenty years old or more, fifty years or less, that all of them must present themselves with their swords and shields and spears and other arms that they happen to have before Lois Garcia de Córdoba

“hua carta do dito Johan Peres, fillo que foy de dito Fedro Ponço, seelada de seu seelo pendente de cera enno qual seelo era vn escudo et enno escudo duas omagees de cabezas”

“Iten digo que eu agora non teño mais debdas que a de tristam de montenegro tio da dita miña moller que me emprestou de hua vez trinta escudos e de outra seys marcos de plata”

Item, I said that at the moment I have no more debts than that with Tristán de Montenegro, my wife's uncle, who lent me thirty escudos at one time and six silver marcs on another occasion

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