beauseant

See also: beauséant

English

Etymology

French beaucéant.

Noun

beauseant (plural beauseants)

1. (historical) The black and white standard (battle flag) of the Knights Templar.
   • 1871, Charles Whitlock Moore, The Freemason's monthly magazine: Volume 30, page 373:

     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 […]

References

• “beauseant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.