canton
noun
• a subdivision of a country established for political or administrative purposes.
• "they rejected the possibility of dividing the country into cantons"
• a square charge smaller than a quarter and positioned in the upper (usually dexter) corner of a shield.
Origin:
early 16th century: from Old French, literally ‘corner’, from Provençal, based on a Romance word related to medieval Latin cantus (see cant2).
