bauçan (1160-74)
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bauçan (1160-74)

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[ FEW: 1,226b balteus; Gdf: 1,602a baucent; GdfC: ∅; TL: 1,884 baucenc; DEAF:  baucenc; DMF:  baucenc; TLF: ∅; OED:  bauson n. and a. / bausond a.; MED:  bausand a. / bausene n.; DMLBS: 178c balzanus ]
balçan ,  balzun;  bauçant,  baucen,  baucent,  bauchan,  bausande,  bausant,  bausent,  baussan,  bauson,  bausun,  bauzan,  bachant  816,  baucyn  406  

a.

1horseszool.piebald, with black and white patches: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  chevauls ont gaaingniés blans et baucens et sors  i 123.3294
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  [...] sur un destrier bauçan  3331
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  deus chivaus [...] ly un estoit bausent, l’altre pomelez  2476
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  ‘Ha, balçan, bon destrier, tant mar fustes’  1942

s.

1mammalszool.badger: 
( MS: s.xiii )  taxi .i.brocvel bausande  i 51
( s.xiii2; MS: c.1400 )  Item taxus animal est gallice baussan, anglice brok  183
( MS: s.xv )  Pernetz suette de bausun bone partye  155.E409
2 name (used as a surname): 
( 1169-70 )  Willelmus Balzun  xv 98
sorbauçan 
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