Canting arms
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canting-arms-173-17071933
title:
Canting arms
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Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name in a visual pun or rebus. The expression derives from the latin cantare.
French heralds used the term armes parlantes, as they would sound out the name of the armiger. Many armorial allusions require research for elucidation because of changes in language and dialect that have occurred over the past millennium. Canting arms – some in the form of rebuses – are quite common in German civic heraldry. They have also been increasingl
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description:
Heraldric symbols representing the name of their owner, either literally or as a visual pun
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canting_arms
date created:
2005-03-15T09:16:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T14:13:44Z
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