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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.]
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(Mil.)
A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge.
A cartridge box.
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.
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(Arch.)
A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper.
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.
(Egyptian Antiq.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield. 2 (context Egyptian hieroglyphics English) an oval figure containing characters that represent the names of royal or divine people. 3 A paper cartridge. 4 A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon. 5 A gunner's bag for ammunition. 6 A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
WordNet
n. a cartridge (usually with paper casing) [syn: cartouch]
Wikipedia
In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name, coming into use during the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty under Pharaoh Sneferu. While the cartouche is usually vertical with a horizontal line, it is sometimes horizontal if it makes the name fit better, with a vertical line on the left. The Ancient Egyptian word for it was shenu, and it was essentially an expanded shen ring. In Demotic, the cartouche was reduced to a pair of brackets and a vertical line.
Of the five royal titularies it was the prenomen, the throne name, and the "Son of Ra" titulary, the so-called nomen name given at birth, which were enclosed by a cartouche.
At times amulets were given the form of a cartouche displaying the name of a king and placed in tombs. Such items are often important to archaeologists for dating the tomb and its contents. Cartouches were formerly only worn by Pharaohs. The oval surrounding their name was meant to protect them from evil spirits in life and after death. The cartouche has become a symbol representing good luck and protection from evil. Egyptians believed that one who had their name recorded somewhere would not disappear after death. A cartouche attached to a coffin satisfied this requirement. There were periods in Egyptian history when people refrained from inscribing these amulets with a name, for fear they might fall into somebody's hands conferring power over the bearer of the name.
A cartouche is a rounded oblong frame for royal names in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Cartouche may also refer to:
- Cartouche (cartography), a decorative emblem on a globe or map
- Cartouche (cooking), a culinary technique
- Cartouche (design), a scrolling frame motif
- Cartouche (film), a 1962 French film about Louis Dominique Bourguignon
- Cartouche (group), a Eurodance act
- Louis Dominique Bourguignon or Cartouche, 18th-century criminal
- "Cartouche", a 2003 song by Blackmore's Night from Ghost of a Rose
- Cartouche, an oval-shaped shield in heraldry
Cartouche is a 1962 French film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale.
Cartouche was a Belgian Eurodance group whose biggest dance hit from 1991 was "Feel the Groove", which peaked at number 13 in 1991 on the French Singles Chart. The members consisted of Myrelle Tholen and Jean-Paul Visser. The group only released one album, House Music All Night Long in 1991. The group also sang "Miracles", "Shame" and "Touch the Sky" (in 1994) which were all composed and produced by Serge Ramaekers.
The Ancient Egyptian Cartouche hieroglyph-(as hieroglyph only) is used to represent the Egyptian language word for 'name'. It is Gardiner sign listed no. V10, of the subgroup for rope, fibre, baskets, bags, etc.
A cartouche (also cartouch) is an oval or oblong design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design.
In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian . Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery (see illustration).
The engraved trade card of the London clockmaker Percy Webster (illustration, right) shows a vignette of the shop in a scrolling cartouche frame of Rococo design that is composed entirely of scrolling devices.
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 to cartographer and period style. On 15th-century maps they are modelled after Italian precedent (simple strapwork), by the 16th century architectural and figurative elements (like coats of arms) are added. The cartographic cartouche had its heyday in the Baroque period. Toward the end of the 18th century ornamental effects in cartography became less popular, their style developed to simple oval or rectangular fields with inscriptions.
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.