balzanus

balzanus [cf. OF baucenc It. balzano] 1 ‘bausond’, piebald (horse). 1207 reddidit j equum bauzanum Cl 92a; 1214 pro j [equo] baio baucano Ib. 168b; a1220 legavit ‥ runcinum baucennum FormA 423; 1242 pro pane et custodia cujusdam †bucstani commorantis apud Westm’ Liberate 16 m. 6; 1265 equus balcanus (RHosp.) Manners 58; 1311 unius equi favii badii bausanni (Muster Berw.) Cal. Scot. III p. 394; 1313 equum nigrum bauceanum KR Ac 14/15 r. 4; 1313 pro restauro ‥ unius equi nigri baustandi Cl 130 m. 12; 1316 pro restauro ‥ unius equi rubii liardi bauszandi ‥ unius equi sori bauszanni ‥ et unius equi badii bauszandi RGasc IV 1679; 1318 unius equi ‥ sori bausianni Cl 135 m. 13. 2 ‘bauson’, badger. 1322 possunt ‥ fugare ad cervos, damas, †bauceum [? l. baucen’, i. e. baucenos], cattas (Ch. Haltemprice) MonA VI 521; 1355 item ij bagges de pelle †bancini [l. baucini] MunCOx 132. 3 beauséant, black and white standard of Templars. s1250 hinc dilacerabatur oloflamma, suppeditabatur balcanum M. Par. Maj. VI 195; bausanum vexillum assumpserunt Capgr. Hen. 158.