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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.