SUMMARY: The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the meaning and use of hair combs in Early Modern Portugal (16th–18th centuries), having as a case study the objects found in the convent of São Francisco located in Castelo de Vide, in Portugal. These artefacts were used as a public demonstration of cultural and personal wealth, taste, and could possess apotropaic characteristics. They mark the desire to communicate social status, accumulated monetary wealth, faith, social beliefs, prophylactic functions, and it is also possible to understand their diachronic significance in their extended use through time. The combs were made using different raw materials, though the ones presented here are tortoiseshell. They exhibited the use of elements of European taste but were manufactured from exogenous materials, courtesy of Portuguese overseas endeavours, and affected by accompanying transformations in tastes and fashion.

摘要：本文的目的是介绍和讨论发梳在早期现代葡萄牙（16 世纪至 18 世纪）的含义和用途，以位于维迪堡的圣弗朗西斯科修道院中发现的物品作为案例研究，在葡萄牙。这些文物被用作文化和个人财富、品味的公开展示，并且可能具有辟邪的特征。它们标志着传达社会地位、积累的货币财富、信仰、社会信念、预防功能的愿望，并且还可以在其长期使用中理解它们的历时意义。这些梳子是用不同的原材料制成的，尽管这里展示的是龟甲。它们展示了欧洲品味元素的使用，但由外来材料制成，