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Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name 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. Canting arms – some in the form of rebuses – are quite common in German civic heraldry. They have also been increasingly used in the 20th century among the British royal family. When the visual representation is not straightforward but as complex as a rebus, this is sometimes called a ''rebus coat of arms''. An in-joke among Society for Creative Anachronism heralds is the pun, "Heralds don't pun; they cant."〔 Cites 72 historical examples of canting arms, as well as SCA usage.〕 == Examples of canting arms == A famous example of canting arms are those of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Queen Consort of the United Kingdom 1936-52 and Queen Mother 1952-2002). Her arms (pictured below) contain in sinister (i.e. on the bearer's left, viewer's right) the bows and blue lions that make up the arms of the Bowes and Lyon families. File:Arms of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.svg|Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: bows and lions File:Arms of Beatrice of York.svg|Princess Beatrice of York: ''Beatrice'' = bee thrice = three bees File:Quintin Hogg Arms.svg|Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone: three hog's heads File:Cokborgne blason.png|Cockburn: three cocks (roosters) File:Crowninsshield Coat of Arms.jpg|Crowninshield family: crown on the shield File:Blason Avrecourt.svg|De Barry family: three bars gemelles File:Flag of Maryland.svg|Flag of Maryland, originally the arms of George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore, whose mother's maiden name was Crossland; the latter's arms shows a cross on land (the field). Municipal coats of arms which interpret the town's name in rebus form are also called canting. Here are a few examples. Image:Brasão de Berwickshire.png|The arms of Berwickshire, Scotland: Bear and Wych Elm Image:Elmbridge BC Crest of Arms.png| Elmbridge, Surrey (1974): elm tree on bridge. (The toponym is related to bridges but not to elms; the prefix refers to ''Emel'', a former name for the river Mole.) Image:Blason de la ville de Châteaurenard (13).svg| Châteaurenard: ''Château'' = castle; ''Renard'' = fox Image:COA Eberbach Baden.svg|Eberbach (1976): ''Eber'' = boar; ''Bach'' = brook (wavy blue fess) File:Hensbroek.svg|Hensbroek (1817): The coat of arms of the village of Hensbroek in North Holland interprets the toponym as "hen-breeches" (the toponym is unrelated to either "hen" or "breeches", deriving from a personal name ''Hein'' and the Dutch cognate of "brook", i.e. "Henry's brook".) File:FEC.png|Freixo de Espada à Cinta (1926): ''Freixo'' = ash; ''de Espada'' = with sword; ''à Cinta'' = at the waist, in Portuguese Image:Falkenberg vapen.svg|Falkenberg (1971): ''Falken'' = falcon; ''Berg'' = hill, in Swedish Image:Seinäjoki.vaakuna.svg|Seinäjoki (1951): ''seinä'' = wall, ''joki'' = river, in Finnish File:Coat of arms of Berlin.svg|Berlin (1954): ''Bär'' = bear File:EscutdeManacor.jpg|Manacor: ''man'' = hand, ''a'' = at, ''cor'' = heart, in Catalan Image:Escut d' Torrevieja.PNG|Torrevieja (1829): ''Torre'' = tower, ''vieja'' = old Image:Ua Kr Rig g.gif|Kryvyi Rih: ''Kryvyi'' = crooked, ''Rih'' = horn, in Ukrainian Image:Coat of Arms of Rueda (Valladolid).svg|Rueda (1986): ''rueda'' = wheel in Spanish 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「canting arms」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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