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Webster 1913 Edition
Cartoon
1.
A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; – used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like;
as, the
. cartoons
of Raphael2.
A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature;
as, the
cartoons
of “Puck.”