Meanings
nounbeauseant (plural beauseants)
plural beauseants
- historicalThe black and white standard (battle flag) of the Knights Templar.
The air has been gay with waving plumes and resplendent beauseants; the streets of the Monumental City have echoed with the measured tramp of six thousand gallant Knights, gathered from all parts of the Union[…]
1871, Charles Whitlock Moore, The Freemason's monthly magazine: Volume 30, page 373
Origin
- Frenchbeaucéant
- Englishbeauseant
French beaucéant.
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