Canetto

Little ducks in the coat of arms

With Canetto , Pl. Canetten are in the Heraldry little ducks (French. Canette , dt. Young female duck) in the arms referred. These are optionally mutilated on legs, beaks and / or wings. This common figure is tinged according to the heraldic rules and can be in combination with other heraldic figures in a field or coat of arms. A symbolic statement for the heraldic animal is not known. Another term is merlette , which is often seen as a mutilated blackbird.

literature

• Jakob Heinrich Kaltschmidt : The latest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages ​​that occur in the arts and sciences, in trade and traffic. 7th, completely revised and significantly increased edition. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, p. 144 .

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