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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CANT . (I) (Possibly through the Fr. from See also:

Lat. cantos, corner), in See also:architecture, a See also:term used where the corner of a square is cut off, octagonally or otherwise. Thus a See also:bay window, the sides of which are not parallel, or at right angles to the spectator, is said to be canted. (2) (From the Lat. cantare, to sing, very See also:early in use, in a depreciatory sense, of religious services), a word appearing in See also:English in the 16th See also:century for the whining speech of beggars; hence it is applied to thieves' or See also:gipsies' See also:jargon, to the See also:peculiar See also:language of any class or See also:sect, to any current phrase or turn of language, and particularly to the hypocritical use of pious phraseology.

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