The name baucent, also spelled bausent, bauceant, baussant, beausseant, beauséant etc., in origin is the Old French term for a piebald horse, a horse that has a pattern of spots (white) on a pigmented background of hair. The name was later approximated to the French bien-séant, meaning "decorous, becoming".
The word, however, is more commonly used for the war flag (vexillum
belli) used by the Knights Templar in the 12th and 13th centuries.
