Definitions
divide into cantons, of a country
Word origin
1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.
Used in a sentence
“These three millions live in a small canton of Egypt which cannot maintain twenty thousand people”
“20 May, 1686, Gilbert Burnet, letter from Nimmengen There is another piece of Holbein's, […] in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Saviour's passion are represented.”
“The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Swiss division”6 letters
02“Swiss district”6 letters
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