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Beau-Séant
The definition is "Battle cry of the Templars, the motto they bore on their banner". However with all my Googling I fail to find what it means...
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Could Seant have been a person or a place?
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According to Sir Walter Scott, it meant "Be noble."
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>with all my Googling.. ?? The Templar were divided into three classes. The first class, the knights, consisted of the nobles that joined the order. These comprised the principle fighting arm of the Knights Templar. Knights wore a white surcoat marked with a red cross on the breast. The next class was the sergeants. These were composed of the lower class freemen that joined the order. They provided menial labor, and care, while at the same time serving as infantry on the battlefield. Sergeants wore the red cross on a brown mantle. Third were the clerics. These were priests who could come from any class. The clerics wore green, with the red cross, and gloves. So that their hands would be clean when serving mass, they wore these gloves at all times. As a symbol of chastity, all Templar wore a sheepskin girdle at all times. The banner of the knights was verticle, divided into two squares, one of black and the other of white. The black square symbolized the world of sin left behind when joining the order, while the white one symbolized the pure life that they knights now led. The banner was known as the "Beau Seant," which in French means "Be noble!" or "Be glorious!" from http://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/daymart/masons.htm
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As for non-English words and expressions, when google doesn't yield any results, you could try an on-line bilingual dictionary.
For French,
http://www.wordreference.com/fr/index.htm
is as good as any.
and
http://www.wordreference.com
has Spanish and Italian and
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
German.
These are the best of several free on-line bilingual dictionaries, in my opinion.
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Is it just me, or do others tend to be skeptical when something like this turns up on the internet with words misspelled? I saw principle instead of principal and verticle instead of vertical and immediately my mind said, "oops./ I wonder what else is wrong."
Am I being snobbish about spelling?
Not trying to be funny here, not trying to be anything other than curious about others' reactions to what I consider egregious errors.
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snobbish about spelling
It's unclear to me whether the offending passage is original to Glick or whether Glick is merely quoting George Washington. If the latter I would cut him a little slack in the spelling department; they weren't as nit-picky in those days. Even if the former I would be hard pressed to discount such a long passage on the basis of two misspellings/typos which could easily have been introduced anywhere in a long line of writing/proofreading/copy-editing.
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For me, it depends on where I find the text, TEd.
If I'm reading a textbook and keep finding errors in spelling then, I tend to drop it as a source or reference. If they didn't check themselves, how can I be sure they checked their facts.
In a personal web page, I assume it was an error when they copied the information...BUT, if it is a personal web page, I won't assume what they're saying is absolutely accurate either. Which means, I won't fight to the death on a point since I don't have an official source of info. (which is why that invented word in the dictionary just pisses me off because they're supposed to be accurate. [still ranting-e] )
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Tell me about it. I spent two hours driving around northern OH roads trying to find Goblu so I could have lunch there.
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I did try Beau-Seant on the translation site and got Beautiful Seant. Oh well.
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