bausond

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  1. Having white spots on a black or bay ground; having a white strip down the face, or a patch on the forehead: applied to animals. [Scots.] His honest, sonsie, baws'nt face Aye gat him friends in ilka place. Burns, The Twa Dogs, l. 31.

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  1. Early modern English also bawsonde, bawsand, modern dial. bawsont, bawsand, also (erroneously written as if a participle) bauson'd, bassen'd, baws'nt, etc.; from Middle English bausand (also, as a noun, bauson, babson, bausen, etc.), from Old French bausant, baussant, bausent, bauzant, bauçant, balcent, bauchant, etc. (with apparently unorig. -t), also bauzan, bausen, bausain (later Middle Latin bausendus, bausennus) = Provencal bausan = Italian balzano, white-spotted; cf. modern F. (from Italian) balzan, a black or bay horse with white feet. Origin unknown; possibly connected with the equivalent Celtic words mentioned as the source of English ball, q. v.
 

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