Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus. The term cant came into the English language from Anglo-Norman cant, meaning song or singing, from Latin cantāre, and English cognates include canticle, chant, accent, incantation and recant.French heralds used the term Armes Parlantes (\"Talking Arms\"), as they would sound out the name of the armiger."@en }
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- Canting_arms comment "Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus. The term cant came into the English language from Anglo-Norman cant, meaning song or singing, from Latin cantāre, and English cognates include canticle, chant, accent, incantation and recant.French heralds used the term Armes Parlantes (\"Talking Arms\"), as they would sound out the name of the armiger.".