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the Destreza Glossary
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- Caballería/Caballero
Dictionary:
Minsheu 1599 (Spanish-English)
Cavalléro [m.] = a knight, or gentelman ser uing on horsebacke.
Cavallería [f.] = horsemen in warre, caual lerie, knighthood, chiualrie,
horseman ship, gentilitie.
Cavalléro de espuévlas dorádas = a knight of the
order.
Cavállo [m.] = a horse in generall, a knight in chesse plaie.
Cavalleríza,
or Cavalleríça [f.] = the horsemans warde, a princes quierie or
stable, where his horses of seruice are kept and ridden, a stable.
Related Words:
Fre['y]le = a brother of an order of knight hood.
* Sesméro = a knight of the shire, one that solliciteth the case
of the commonalitie.
* Calatráva [f.] = the order of the knights of Calatrava. Also
the place where they liue and make residence together in Spaine.
* Baylío = a
iudge, a bayliffe of the order of the knights of Malta.
