bawsunt
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Old French bausant (“black and white spotted”)
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bawsunt (not comparable)
- (archaic, rare, literary, or dialectal) Having white streaks or spots on a black or bay background (especially of an animal's or a mountain's face).
- 1985, The Powys Review[1], volume 5, numbers 17-20:
- Far off the bawsunt mountains jirk, Their kaim o' ribie trees. Like howlets roostin' roon' aboot, Are a' the seas.