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Meaning of lanceiro | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B2
[lanˈθejɾʊ]

Definitions

  1. spearman (soldier armed with a spear)
    masculine
  2. lancer (cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon)
    masculine
  3. embrasure
    archaic, masculine

Examples

“se alguas seeteyras ou lançeyros estan feytas en a parede da dicta casa, que as çarren de pedra et que as non abran nunca nen façan y outras alguas a saluo fique en o sotoo da dicta casa as lumeeyras que foren neçesarias et perteesçentes para dar lume ao dicto sotoo que non seian por maneyra de defensa algua”

if some arrowslits or embrasures are built in the walls of that tower house, they must be closed in stone, never to be reopened, and they shouldn't build new ones, with this exception, that in the ground floor there should be enough and sufficient skylights for lightening the aforementioned ground floor, but as long as they can't be used for defense

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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