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Webster 1913 Edition
cartouche
Car-touch′
,car-touche′
Noun.
pl.
Cartouches
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. 1.
(Mil.)
(a)
A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge
. (b)
A cartridge box.
(c)
A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
(d)
A gunner’s bag for ammunition
. (e)
A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
2.
(Arch.)
(a)
A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper
. (b)
A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.
3.
(Egyptian Antiq.)
An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.
Definition 2024
cartouche
cartouche
English
The cartouche of Ramses II.
Noun
cartouche (plural cartouches)
- (architecture) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield.
- (Egyptian hieroglyphics) an oval figure containing characters that represent the names of royal or divine people.
- 1887 — H. Rider Haggard, She, ch III
- Besides the uncial writing on the convex side of the sherd at the top, painted in dull red, on what had once been the lip of the amphora, was the cartouche already mentioned as being on the scarabaeus, which we had also found in the casket. The hieroglyphics or symbols, however, were reversed, just as though they had been pressed on wax.
- 1887 — H. Rider Haggard, She, ch III
- A paper cartridge.
- A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
- A gunner's bag for ammunition.
- A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
Translations
in architecture
hieroglyphs
paper cartridge
a box with ammunition
|
a gunner's bag
See also
- (Egyptian hieroglyphics): serekh
French
Etymology
from Italian cartoccio, from carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khartēs)
Noun
cartouche m (plural cartouches)
- cartouche (ornamental figure)
- cartouche (Egyptian hieroglyphic of name)
- title block (technical drawing)
Noun
cartouche f (plural cartouches)