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Bauta may refer to:
- Bauta, Cuba, a city and municipality
- The bauta mask, a mask traditionally worn for the Carnival of Venice
- Bautasten, the Scandinavian name for menhir, a large upright standing stone
- Gretchen Bauta, Canadian philanthropist, donor to:
- The W. Garfield Weston Foundation
- Through the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security to:
- Seeds of Diversity Canada
- USC Canada
Usage examples of "bauta".
He gave a glance at Wrot, but obviously decided that the old bauta was in their full confidence.
These directions were all piously carried out by a mourning people, who decked his mound with the gold he had won, and erected above it a Bauta, or memorial stone, to show how dearly they had loved their brave king Beowulf, who had died to save them from the fury of the dragon.
They wore black capes and tricorn hats, and on their faces low white masks, beaked, like birds of prey: the bauta, the carnival costume of the eighteenth century.
There were several examples of the plain white bauta, some complete with tricorn and long black veil.
Two torches flared on either side, held fast by iron brackets, and a third was held by a servant dressed in a bauta, waiting just inside the open gate.
Then out of the blackness the face of the servant in the bauta came towards him.
An individual who chose the bauta thereby chose to spend what remained of his life however he wished.
But, in the nature of things, a bauta had no further obligations to their kochan.
This old bauta was wise with wrem-fa, because he had not wasted his life.
And Wrot had taken the occasion to mention to Aille another of those human sayings of which the old bauta was so fond: The prospect of being hanged concentrates the mind wonderfully.
These masks, the Bauta, the Domino, the Gagna, the Primo Zanni, the Plague Doctor, are not figures from the Commedia dell'arte, as is often thought.