🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

cant noun

  /kænt/
  • (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
lamentation
  • (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
argot
  • (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
armes parlantes
  • (uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.
blabla, langue de bois

cant verb

  /kænt/
  • (transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
canter, incliner

🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

cant noun {m}

affectation
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