Also 8 bazin. [a. F. basane, (Cotgr. bazane, Palsgr. basanne), prob. ad. Pr. *bazana, a. Sp. badana (med.L. bedana), ad. Arab. biṭānah, lining, ‘inside’; see also the Eng. corruption BASIL sb.3, BAZIL.] Sheep-skin tanned in oak- or larch-bark; distinguished from roan, which is tanned in sumach.
1714. Fr. Bk. of Rates, 153. Cloth made of Hemp, Fustians, or Bazins.
1851. Turner, Dom. Archit., II. iii. 126. The prepared sheepskin called bazan.
1865. Hannett, Bibliopegia (ed. 6), 104. The cover is of black basin, the back full gilt.
