Noun: bezant
| Singular | bezant |
| Plural | bezants |
Sample Sentences
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One and All is the motto of the County of Cornwall, used below the coat-of-arms, which is a shield embracing fifteen bezants, or golden roundels, on a black ground; [...]. [1941 December, “The Why and the Wherefore: Cornish names of G.W.R. locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 575:]
Nouns inflected like bezant
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English besaunt, from Old French bezant, nominative bezanz, from Latin byzantius (“of Byzantium”). See: Middle English Nouns '
besaunt', Latin Nouns '
byzantius'.