subdivision of an Italian epic or long narrative poem, such as Dante's Divina Commedia, first employed in English by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene, popularized by Byron in "Don Juan," and restored to epic dignity by Ezra Pound in his Pisan Cantoas
cantos
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[ 'kan-(")tO ] (noun.) 1590. Italian, from Latin cantus song, from canere to sing; more at CHANT.