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Cant is thus the idiom of a vernacular tradition embedded in the "flash crib," the place where flash talk, or cant, is spoken.
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The word Cant is rather from cantare, as a chanting whine, than from the Andrew cants, father and son, of Charles the Second's time.
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Weather, Jan. 3 and 4, 1854 -- Star of Bethlehem -- Origin of the Word "Cant" -- Epigram on Four Lawyers 103
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The word Cant is rather from 'cantare', as a chanting whine, than from the Andrew Cants, father and son, of Charles the Second's time.] *****
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
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Mons Jovis, to the city called Cant Guic, and to the western Tumulus, that is, to Cruc Occident.
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"Cant," the earliest term for slang in English, refers to the specialized jargon of the criminal underworld, employed by thieves, beggars, prostitutes, and vagabonds.
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Lady Katrine welcoming her victims -- her unsuspicious victims -- he slid off to the friends round the tea-table to learn from "Cant" what "Scandal" had been telling.
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Cant wait for archery season to start, and good luck to everyone, regardless of what you choose to carry in the field.
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