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Cartouche   Listen
noun
cartouche, Cartouch  n.  (pl. cartouches)  
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.






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"Cartouche" Quotes from Famous Books



... there was something grand in his face, large blue eyes, full of humor and bonhommie, a prominent nose, a broad forehead, burned brown with the sun, his head covered with the omnipresent tarboosh, a mustache like Cartouche's; such was my vis-a-vis at ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. VI, June, 1862 - Devoted To Literature and National Policy • Various



Words linked to "Cartouche" :   cartridge, cartouch



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