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Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs
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cartouche
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Word definitions for cartouche in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cartridge (usually with paper casing) [syn: cartouch ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cartouch \Car*touch"\, cartouche \car*touche"\, n.; pl. Cartouches . [F. cartouche, It. cartuccia, cartoccio, cornet, cartouch, fr. L. charta paper. See 1st Card , and cf. Cartridge .] (Mil.) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cartouche in cartography is a decorative emblem on a globe or map . Map cartouches may contain the title, the printer's address, date of publication, the scale of the map and legends, and sometimes a dedication . The design of cartouches varies according ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "scroll-like ornament," also "paper cartridge," from French cartouche , the French form of cartridge (q.v.). Application to Egyptian hieroglyphics dates from 1830, on resemblance to rolled paper cartridges.
Usage examples of cartouche.
The Schinderhannes division, the brigades of Mandrin, Cartouche, Poulailler, Trestaillon, and Tropmann appeared in the gloom, shooting down and massacring.
The pendant, like a slim rectangle rounded at top and bottom, was a cartouche, an Egyptian symbol of identity.
Her only jewelry was earrings and a cartouche like those he had given Jan, except that hers was a gift from Scotty, and carried her name.
Rax could tell through the dust and the spider webs, the cartouche of Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom.
That it held the cartouche of Thoth and not one of the necropolis symbols was rare enough.
Instead, a mighty serpent coiled its length around the coffin, its head, marked with the cartouche of Thoth, resting above the breast of the mummy.
I'd say, based on the cartouche and the workmanship, that this is Eighteenth Dynasty, not Sixteenth.
There were spare cartouches for the infantry, each bag filled with a wooden block drilled to hold cartridges.
It took twenty minutes before the French officer was hauled by a loop of rope to the battlements on the western face, followed by nine precious cartouches of ready ammunition, and it was another ten minutes before Harper and his escort were back with Frederickson.
Only their ammunition, wrapped in oiled paper and deep in rainproof cartouches, was dry.
The pharaohs, of course, can be encapsuled in a cartouche, and even a mage much less puissant than myself can thwart any number of zombies.
Peez fought her way through the pack just as the little man flipped the sign over to display the cartouche lovingly drawn on the other side.
The public armory in Charleston was broken open by night, and eight hundred stand of arms, two hundred cutlasses, besides cartouches, flints, matches and other necessary materials of war, were withdrawn without discovery.
Minerva had crawled underneath the legends, compass-roses, analemmas, and cartouches that were superimposed on all the world’s maps and globes, and vanished from all charts, ceased to exist.
When cartouches with dot groups appeared - evidently as inscriptions in some unknown and primordial language and alphabet - the depression of the smooth surface was perhaps an inch and a half, and of the dots perhaps a half inch more.